Thank you for the suggestions, Dale and Stroller. I have an Athlon64 machine, and in order to access the CPU temperature on that, I simply built the 'k8temp' module. The option to build the 'coretemp' module is on the same page of menuconfig. However, coretemp isn't applicable to my Pentium D 3GHz.
I would like to know if there is any way - other than by using lm_sensors - that I can get at the temperature of my CPU. k8temp works for AMD Athlon64 CPUs, coretemp is for Intel Core CPUs, is there a similar solution for Intel Pentium D CPUs? Also, can anyone enlighten me as to whether it is correct that my Pentium D 3GHz can only drop to 2.4GHz at the lowest, rather than anything lower, while doing frequency scaling? Thanks again, Richard 2009/6/15 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > Stroller wrote: >> >> On 15 Jun 2009, at 11:57, Richard McCombie wrote: >>> ... >>> I'm trying to monitor the temperature of my CPU in Gentoo. I have a >>> Pentium D 3.00GHz. >>> >>> I tried compiling my kernel with the coretemp module but this won't >>> modprobe (which, I imagine, is because the module is exclusively for >>> Core chips). >> >> >> sys-apps/lm_sensors ?? >> >> Or is this only for measureing tempertaures on the motherboard? >> >> Stroller. >> >> >> > > It may be that the drivers are in the kernel options but he just needs > to know which one out of the dozens that are available is the correct > one. I monitor my CPU and mobo and I don't have lm_sensors at all. > > I do agree that lm_sensors may be a a start since it has a detection > tool. Then he could take that info and dig around in the kernel config. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
