Re: ACPI and CPU temps on Tyan S2882.
Brett Viren wrote:
> Has anyone gotten ACPI working on a Tyan S2882 such that one can
> read-out CPU temperatures? If so, can you give me a quick HOWTO or
> any pointers?
>
> I'm currently running i386 sarge with stock Linux 2.6.7 built under
> AMD64 biarch chroot with all ACPI options turned on in the kernel
> config but "acpi -V" complains:
>
> No support for device type: thermal
>
> and /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ is empty (as are many other directories
> under /proc/acpi). There are no apparent ACPI related errors during
> bootup.
>
> I enter the BIOS setup and watch the CPU's temperatures fluctuate, but
> it would be nice to both monitor and use the CPUs at the same time.
>
Why don't you simply use the lm-sensors for that? On the tyan hompage you
can even get a sensors.conf file for this board. On our system it works
great.
Cheers,
Bernd
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