Checking CPU temperature

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> I have just installed acpi with
>> >>>
>> >>> yum install acpi
>> >>>
>> >>> but
>> >>>
>> >>> # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>> >>> cat: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature: No such file or directory
>> >>> # dir /proc/acpi/thermal_zone
>> >>> #
>> >> Did you start it?
>> >
>> > No. How can I start it? I have tried
>> >
>> > # /sbin/services/acpi start
>> > bash: /sbin/services/acpi: No such file or directory
>> > #
>> >
>>
>> /sbin/service acpid start
>
> If I might butt in here: I have acpid installed and running and I get
> the same error as the OP. There is nothing in
> the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone pseudo-directory. This is on an Intel 965
> motherboard with a Core 2 Dual cpu.
>
> OTOH I have installed 'sensors' and 'coretemp' (required for Intel dual
> cores AFAIK), and they work. Also KSensors under KDE (gkrellm also
> works).
>
> Note that you need to run 'sensors -l' as root to set things up.

Thanks, Patrick. How did you install coretemp? I do have also a dual
core with (I guess) the same motherboard.

Paul