F8: Dell laptop - i8kutils

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 07:30 -0700, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> > I have installed i8kutils and thought that I could use these
> > conveniently. I thought I would find some config file to set
> > temperatures. I haven't found one, and running "i8kmon -d -a -t 5 &"
> > doesn't seem to work.
> I did a google search with the terms "gnome linux cpu temperature
> applet" and got a lot of hits.  The link
> http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/lm_sensors-guide-or-how-to-monitor-cpu-temperature-in-linux-fedora-core-6-26-kernel/
> was very helpful on what to install to get sensor readingscat  /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
cat  /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
works pretty well to get temperature.

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