Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:20:55 -0500 From: Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI temperature Message-ID: <200911292020.55799.freebsd@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0911290803u10517ebby94f2acedc53d1bb5@mail.gmail.com> References: <200911291024.06896.freebsd@insightbb.com> <d7195cff0911290803u10517ebby94f2acedc53d1bb5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 29 November 2009 11:03:28 am you wrote: > 2009/11/29 Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com>: > > I booted my HP Pavilion zd8215us and I immediately invoked > > chkCPUTemperature. The first temp reported was 52C, which is 125.6F. This > > leads me to believe that acpi has an anomaly regarding temperature > > measurement. The ambient temp was 71F (21.6C). The machine had been off > > for over eight hours. > > I'm not sure. My laptop shows about 59C as soon as I can > log in, in a room kept around 16C ambient. It rather quickly > drops to <40C if I let it idle with powerd doing its thing. > Thanks for the response. One question though, what OS are you running. The reason I ask is because I want to discover if it's FreeBSD specific or possibly affecting Linux distros as well. And if you're running FreeBSD, which version.
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