Kernel module 'thermal'

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > It's not worth updating the bios, I think.  I'll be upgrading the whole
> > box in a few weeks.  Funny, or not so funny, in that I left Asus boards
> > after several years of using them, because I couldn't get lm-sensors to
> > work with the last Asus board I bought.  I thought Abit would be
> > reliable.
>
> Sounds like it is your BIOS as you say.  But one note about lm_sensors,
> it gets raw uncalibrated measurements from whatever temperature sensors
> you have and proceeds to apply one of a variety of ugly fudge factors to
> try to make some of them which are decidedly nonlinear over temperature
> approximate linearity.  But there isn't much to calibrate your fudge
> factor to any kind of reality.
>
On an Asus board I used to have, I remember I had to swap the sensor readings 
around.

> It seems a reasonable bet that if your BIOS exposes any opinion about
> the temperature of its sensors, that is probably more reliable in
> general than lm_sensors.
>
Unfortunately, you have to reboot to get the info, though.  Actually, as far 
as I can tell, on my boxes where it works, the readings are close to the bios 
reports.  Good enough for an indication, I think.

Anne