BIOS

[Joel Goguen]

Hi Raymond,

Try the command "acpi -V" (without the quotes) instead.

On 2010-01-14, at 7:31, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

Daniel, it says no command found when I type it as you say,  Ray

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com>wrote:

> Did you do "apci -V" or "apci-V"?  It should be the former, with a
> space after apci and before the -V
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:05 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew and Joel, I tried what you suggested and that worked ok the
> acpi
> > was downloaded, but when I do apci-V it says command not found. Still
> cant
> > get any temperatures.  Ray
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Quite right Joel.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the correction.
> >>
> >> Andrew.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Before anyone comes asking why that failed, the command should
> >>> actually be "sudo apt-get install acpi" (without the quotes).
> >>>
> >>> 2010/1/13 Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>:
> >>> > Hello Raymond,
> >>> >
> >>> > Have you tried the utility called "acpi?"  If you're looking for
> >>> > thermal
> >>> > information on boot, that might not be meaningful. However, if you'd
> >>> > like to
> >>> > find out what the temperature is after the system has been running
> for
> >>> > a
> >>> > while, you can try this utility.
> >>> >
> >>> > Type:
> >>> >
> >>> > acpi -V
> >>> >
> >>> > If you don't have "acpi" installed, in Ubuntu,  you can install it by
> >>> > typing:
> >>> >
> >>> > sudo apt-get acpi
> >>> >
> >>> > acpi is an acronym for Advanced Configuration Power Interface. Most
> >>> > computers would support this. From ACPI you can get laptop battery
> >>> > information as well as CPU statistics.
> >>> >
> >>> > Hopefully this was helpful.
> >>> >
> >>> > Good luck!
> >>> >
> >>> > Andrew.
> >>> >
> >>> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com
> >
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Hello all,  How do I get into BIOS? I want to check temperatures of
> >>> >> CPU,
> >>> >> chassis etc.. as Alfred suggested, but I dont have a clue where to
> >>> >> start.
> >>> >> thanks for your help,   Ray
> >>> >>
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