Kernel module 'thermal'

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I've not had much luck with lm-sensors on this box, so when LXF ran an
> > article on it this month I decided to try again.  The first thing it
> > talks about is the kernel module 'thermal'.
> >
> > # lsmod | grep thermal
> > #
> > # modprobe thermal
> > FATAL: Module thermal not found.
> >
> > It goes on to say that you can type 'acpi -t' to get the same output:
> >
> > acpi -t
> > -bash: acpi: command not found
> >
> > Perhaps this is why lm-sensors can't get any info?
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> It's built into the Fedora kernel
>
> CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
>
> Try, eg,
>
> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature
>
> Where the * is defined by your BIOS, eg, THR1.
>
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ is empty!

Anne