[wellylug] Temperature Monitor

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <44BE98C4.5070408 at biker.geek.nz>, Colin Templeman writes:
>I fear it may be of a vintage that falls into the 'grey area' regarding ACPI
>implementation.  It does appear to have a winbond(?) sensor of some description
>since there is CPU temp data displayed in the BIOS.  I was hoping to be able to
>poll the sensor direct remotely.  Anyone know if this is feasible?

Install ln-sensors (http://www.lm-sensors.org/); it's packaged in most
modern distributions.  Run sensors-detect and follow the instructions.
When done run "sensors".

Beware that (a) there've been reports of hardware damage in some old
equipment (certain IBM laptops models IIRC), and (b) on some hardware
its defaults will trigger a hardware alarm ("system is overheating" type
thing) for the values being outside the default configured desired range.
(The only way I've found to reset that alarm is to restart the system,
and stop the lm-sensors kernel modules loading on boot.  There's a
configuration file where you can override the defaults, but I've never
had the patience to do so for each measurement on the systems which
trigger the hardware alarm)

I'd suggest reading some of the documentation before installing it so
you know what you're getting yourself into.

Ewen