acpi_thermal

[Niklas Sorensson]

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Niklas Sorensson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm about to change cpu-fan on my Athlon64 computer, and would
>> like to be able to monitor the temperature to make sure that
>> everything is ok.
>>
>> However, i have no "hw.acpi.thermal" sysctl entry. Does it have
>> to be enabled somehow, or is it not supported by the driver (or
>> even worse, not supported by the hardware)?
>
> It has to be supported by your BIOS ( which supplies the ACPI methods to
> inquiry the hardware).
>
> You might try the xmbmon port.

This worked well. Thanks!

/Niklas