no thermal_zone in /proc/acpi

From: Silviu Minut (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:02:31 -0500

I just built myself a computer and the bios reports some 50C for the
processor temperature and about 40C inside the case. I thought
that's a little high, so I wanted to monitor it more closely from
within linux (Fedora Core 1).

I'm running kernel 2.4.22-1.2174 with
acpi=on passed to the bootloader, and I do have /proc/acpi, but
the thermal_zone directory, where the temperature should be reported
is empty.

I wonder if anybody knows what the issue is. I did compile
a 2.6 kernel a while ago on a laptop and I could see the temperature
in thermal_zone. Is this a problem with the Fedora pre-compiled
kernel? Or do I have to enable something?

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