> I don't know how acpi works, but I doubt that acpi can't display this
Maybe I didn't express myself well enough, sorry. acpi just reads the data as provided by the proc- or sys-filesystem. If there is no information provided by the kernel, acpi cannot display it. > information. Wven if this is true, this is no reason to close this report > without justification. If acpi can't display the requested information, it There was a justification given: Upon further review it showed that the files needed to gather thermal information were not available on this machine. Thus acpi cannot display this information. ... I still fail to see why this is no justification. Again, information not provided by the kernel cannot be displayed. > could print an error. If my system is normal, the acpi manpage should be > changed to explain that acpi will only show thermal information when this is > possible (ideally indicating when this is possible or not). The manpage says: ... acpi Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, ... It clearly says that acpi only shows information it gets there. > So, please reopen. Note that this bug persists with Linux 2.6.26. No, I won't because this is not a bug in acpi but a problem your system has with the kernel. It might be a kernel bug though. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
