Re: CPU temperature thermal

On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:38:41 +0200
Stefan Gehn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/30/2010 11:46 PM, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:07:19 -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> >> With 2.6.36-rc6, my gkrellm-2.3.4 can't read my CPU temperature
> >> at /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp (which exists). Pour quoi?
> >
> > It looks like src/sysdeps/linux.c doesn't support the
> > new /sys/class/thermal interface[1] :P. Yet? :)
> 
> GKrellM uses
> - /proc/acpi/thermal_zone
> - /proc/acpi/thermal
> - /proc/sys/dev/sensors
> - /sys/bus/i2c/devices
> - /sys/class/hwmon
> 
> I really don't get it why such an important part of a system can change 
> its public API that often (read: Linux is a mess). Furthermore I don't 
> have any thermal_zone below /sys/class/thermal. Not a very useful 
> interface IMHO if temps are only available through /sys/class/hwmon/ anyway.

I don't have any thermal_zone files either, but I'll go ahead and add a sensors
interface for them.  I can only do a simulation test so hopefully it will end up working...

> Last but not least I'd recommend using libsensors support in GKrellM 
> (unfortunately Debian disabled libsensors-usage in its gkrellm-package) 
> instead of relying on any of the above directories.

LIbsensors is the preferred interface for Gkrellm and the only interface that will be
up to date on supporting correct voltage scaling factors and offsets for recent
sensor chips.  Does anyone know why Debian (and consequently Ubuntu)
has disabled using libsensors?

Bill

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