Randy Fishel wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jedy Wang wrote: > >> Add pm-discuss alias. >> >> Jedy >> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 22:51 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: >>> Hello list. >>> >>> I'm trying to find out how to gather thermal zone information for >>> two separate machines. The first, a laptop (Dell Inspiron b120) >>> has no ACPI driver by default. (I haven't investigated this much, >>> but plan to.) >>> >>> In other OSes, I could use ACPI, but wasn't necessary, to get >>> thermal information (such as CPU, HDD, etc). >>> >>> On my other machine in other OSes I use the coretemp module (Intel >>> Core2Duo), which from what I could find using Google, isn't an >>> available module in OpenSolaris. (If this is incorrect information, >>> I apologize for my horrible search engine skills.) >>> >>> This machine is not yet running OpenSolaris, but will be by the >>> weekend if all goes as planned, but monitoring the CPU is critical >>> for this machine as I use it as my build box. >>> >>> A point in the right direction would be most appreciated. >>> >> > > There is tzmon. Sorry to say, though, that I cannot help with how > to use it or what it's future status will be. > > tzmon is a pseudo driver, it handles thermal zones events such as temperature for each zone exposed by ACPI. If a threshold is reached, tzmon can shutdown the system.
But tzmon heavily depends on BIOS implementation, it will do nothing if BIOS does not expose thermal zones info. AFAIK, we don't export thermal zone info to the userland. Thanks, -Aubrey
