[CentOS] Thermal information

[Ned Slider]

Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2009/9/18 Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>:
>> Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>> 2009/9/18 Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>:
>>>> Sergio Belkin wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd want know get thermal information on Centos 5.3 but get nohting.
>>>>> If I run acpitool -e, it outputs:
>>>>>
>>>>>  acpitool -e
>>>>>   Kernel version : 2.6.18-92.1.18.20060707   -    ACPI version :
>>>>> 20060707
>>> Why are you asumming so quickly that is not a Centos kernel?
>>>
>> Because this is what the output from 'acpitool -e' looks like for me:
>>
>> $ acpitool -e
>>   Kernel version : 2.6.18-164.el5   -    ACPI version : 20060707
>>
>> and your output shows 2.6.18-92.1.18.20060707 which is not a CentOS
>> kernel format (to my knowledge?). I might be wrong, and am happy to be
>> corrected if I am :)
> 
> Yes you're wrong :)
> 
> acpitool output it's not the same that uname -r. I mean it doesn't
> show rpm package name.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> rpm -qi kernel
>>> Name        : kernel                       Relocations: (not
>>> relocatable)
>>> Version     : 2.6.18                            Vendor: CentOS
>>> Release     : 92.el5                        Build Date: Tue 10 Jun
>> Which is not the kernel you've shown running above??
>>
> 
> Well, I explained it above. Sorry for my terrible sin, It is not
> Centos 5.3 but 5.2.
> 
> Links Kernel used is below:
> 
> http://vault.centos.org/5.2/os/x86_64/CentOS/kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm
> 
>>>
>>> What's wrong with you?
>> Nothing, I was trying to help.
>>
>> Have a nice weekend.
>>
> 
> 
> Sorry for I was rude Ned, but I am somewhat sick of answers of people
> that don't want to help about anything and only  know to give moral
> advices and ask "are you really using a system of every package Centos
> that has been blessed?". Hey,  of course I ask here because I use
> CentOS at work, and because supposedly there are people that has
> experience using ir on daily basis.
> 
> Have a nice day

No problem :)

As it's a CentOS kernel, then the elrepo.org coretemp module will work 
just fine and will give you nice accurate thermal data for the cpu.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-coretemp