From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 6 18:05:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78E4106568D for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760BA8FC22 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so974914eye.9 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:05:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=5G02IMrT/FRkpXOJNkM6+mM+765MF8EQM1zh6G9Rf/0=; b=mM7gJZ+Dm+/4GzvxR9nAdy3StRwfP/64eyS+NZklDYWrd/XE5h67Qu2DoJJTJTbAh6 4CYMj4YJh5FIZO1gTn3waOynMWJNNS0lqYbK1Vh4/Lg9BW5IYAjgw0iGTd7ztnyXRyPl VMbRl32zi8DGEtOjIRqZgTc76RxGMNge++kvs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=nTaqwEdLm1m9kGFSNBp97YOhNaJpBFZTqAzeVM8Nr8/qvi01r+hPa7C6rS4/Cgn9ju ryvpZHFma3QYLa0neRlVdLvt2Mv/82TQUFtJtprYcOxmM6xeyvZM2LR2eobM7GqoFueR t5YwxA87iEO0SeYvRPDq2/ztKoT1G2GBImbDo= Received: by 10.213.2.70 with SMTP id 6mr13372623ebi.25.1260122707099; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:05:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rui-macbook.lan (bl6-157-203.dsl.telepac.pt [82.155.157.203]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm2993850ewy.0.2009.12.06.10.05.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:05:06 -0800 (PST) Sender: Rui Paulo Message-Id: From: Rui Paulo To: Steven Friedrich In-Reply-To: <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:05:04 +0000 References: <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI temperature X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:05:10 -0000 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