Re: how do I read CPU temperature in ACPI? (w/ P5WD2 motherboard)

From: Michael Thonke (iogl64nx_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/11/05

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To: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>

    David Madore schrieb:

    >Hi. I apologize for what is surely a stupid question: I understand
    >that ACPI should be able to tell me what my CPU's temperature is (I
    >have a sever overheating problem and I am trying to solve it by
    >underclocking somewhat, but I need to be able to read the temperature
    >to do anything worth while), but no matter what ACPI modules I load, I
    >can't find any hint of a CPU temperature reading anywhere below
    >/proc/acpi (the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ directory, for example,
    >remains empty).
    >
    >That's with the "thermal", "processor" and "fan" modules loaded (and a
    >few others; full listing follows signature). I tried to load the
    >asus_acpi module also, since I have an ASUS motherboard (a P5WD2
    >Premium - precise details are given below signature), but I got a "No
    >such device" error. Does that mean my motherboard is unsupported and
    >I cannot read my CPU temperature at all? (But I thought the whole
    >_point_ of ACPI was that it was an abstraction away from the hardware:
    >so why is there such a thing as "Asus" ACPI?) Or else, what am I
    >doing wrong?
    >
    >
    >
    Hello David,

    you will have no luck. I also have this Mainboard in my test rig.
    1.) The Super/IO Winbond W83627EHG-A is not supported yet by lm_sensors2
    or any driver I know of.
    2.) I also can't get acpi temperature on Gigabyte 955X Royal and 925Xe
    Mobo, Abit 925XE, ASUS P5AD2-E 925XE, P5WD2 955X too.

    The ASUS P5WD2 also has some **EXECUTABLE CODE*** in ACPI Table that
    cause some errors here..regarding ACPI stuff *sigh*

    But on the Gigabyte they use a IT8212F Super IO so you can use lm_sensors2.

    I hope I could help a bit.

    Greets 

    -- 
Michael Thonke
IT-Systemintegrator /
System- and Softwareanalyist
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