Jerry Geis wrote:

I downloaded and installed acpitool

when I run it I get

Battery Status <not available> AC Adapter <not availble> Thermal Info <not available>

I was trying to find out how hot the CPU is? Any ideas how to get this information?

currently with an amd 5200+ on fedora 6, but lm_sensors should do the job.

[root@obelix ~]# sensors k8temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter Core0 Temp: +20°C Core1 Temp: +31°C

it8716-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore: +1.04 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) VDDR: +3.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) +3.3V: +0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) ALARM +5V: +4.78 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V) +12V: +11.90 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V) in5: +0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) ALARM in6: +0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) ALARM 5VSB: +4.78 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V) VBat: +2.94 V fan1: 850 RPM (min = 3245 RPM) ALARM fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3245 RPM) ALARM fan3: 1142 RPM (min = 0 RPM) temp1: +27°C (low = -1°C, high = +127°C) sensor = diode temp2: +36°C (low = -1°C, high = +127°C) sensor = thermistor temp3: +25°C (low = -1°C, high = +127°C) sensor = thermistor vid: +0.000 V