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[raymond house]

Ok Joel, that works! here is what I get, cooling 0: processor 0 of 3 and
cooling 1 : processor 0 of 3. ? I guess temps are ok?  Ray

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca> wrote:

> 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>
> 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>
>> 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>
>> 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>
>> 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>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>
>> 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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