high temp?

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 00:08 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 17.04.2005 schrieb Michael A. Peters um 23:56:
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:09 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > You can also quite often cat a file under /proc/acpi/processor/?!? to
> > > get temp.
> > 
> > On my VIA box -
> > 
> > [mpeters at utility ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature 
> > temperature:             40 C
> > [mpeters at utility ~]$ 
> > 
> > On my nforce2 box, that seems to not be supported.
> > 
> > Both running current rawhide.
> 
> I am not sure what temperature the above register represents, but it is
> no current value on my Athlon64 with Cool'n'Quite.
> 
> $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
> temperature:             40 C
> 
> Shows too 40°C :) While the real values are
> 
> CPU Temp:    +23°C  (low  =   +15°C, high =   +45°C)   sensor =
> thermistor
> M/B Temp:    +29°C  (low  =   +15°C, high =   +40°C)   sensor =
> thermistor
> 
> The values are from lm_sensors which reads in

Yeah - I suspect my 40 C value is bogus.
I'm not running lm_sensors on either box.

On my old (now dead) iMac under YDL - there was temp info
in /proc/cpuinfo - and it was real ... well, at least it went up with
load ...