Re: Heat detector
Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:08:48 -0800 (PST)
> I apologize if this is not the right place to ask or if someone has
> already answer my question. I have a new motherboard TX97E, a K6-233 and
> Linux-2.0.33 and , in the bios setup of the board, I can see the
> temperature of the processor/motherboard. I was just wandering if there is
> a simple way (some thing like a /proc entry) to get this information
> without rebooting my box. If this doesn't already exist, I'll do it
> myself, and I will make a patch for it. but If someone has already the
> stuff, I won't have to re-invent the wheel.
% ls -l /dev/temperature
crw-r----- 1 root sys 10, 131 Dec 31 1969 /dev/temperature
I think you need to enable the software watchdog for this to work. Check
in drivers/char.
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Trevor Johnson
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