Checking CPU temperature

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:57 -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> 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.

poc