Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:05:04 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> To: Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI temperature Message-ID: <C392492E-A325-4E92-B97C-94338AD21745@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com> References: <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com>
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On 5 Dec 2009, at 04:37, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I sent this to questions last Sunday, but only one person responded. > He's > running FreeBSD 8 and I think his system is reporting bogus temps too. > I think there might be a missing scaling factor. I'm a hardware guy, > but I > don't currently have temperature measuring equipment and I would > want to do it > on one of my towers (which are currently in storage), not my laptop > anyway. > > 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. As others have said, 52C is pretty normal. -- Rui Paulo
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