Re: [Haifux] reading electric current registers on CPU

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Silberstein
Friends, thanks for all the ideas - none have worked in the meantime. +mA query is nice, but still not too helpful +powertop doesn't have any output that shows CPU power other than for laptops battery +/proc/acpi does not expose the current /power registers.. Any other ideas? On Mon, Dec 28,

Re: [Haifux] reading electric current registers on CPU

2009-12-28 Thread Sorana Fraier
there is a kernel parameter that sets lm_sensors. Is it enabled? check grep -i sensors /usr/src/linux/.config On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mark Silberstein ma...@cs.technion.ac.ilwrote: Friends, thanks for all the ideas - none have worked in the meantime. +mA query is nice, but still

Re: [Haifux] reading electric current registers on CPU

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Silberstein
All of them are compiled as modules. The question is whether this kernel version ( 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PA ) supports this type of info On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Sorana Fraier sf10...@gmail.com wrote: there is a kernel parameter that sets lm_sensors. Is it enabled? check grep -i

Re: [Haifux] reading electric current registers on CPU

2009-12-28 Thread Sorana Fraier
acpi isn't so succesfull. I wouldn't count too much on it. I had serious problems once with acpi and temperature. It doesn't measure correctly the temperature and the laptop didn't boot because it thought the temperature is too high. So I disabled some features of acpi in the kernel. acpi needs