acpi -V gives me gibberish.

[Derek Broughton]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>  said:

>> > cybe at WizardsTower:~$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0
>> > cat: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0: No such file or directory
>> 
>> it could be anything under .../thermal_zone - mine's THR1.  The names
>> are specified in the machines DSDT (in the BIOS)
> 
> Some scouting around shows a file named temperature
> in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM.  No THM or THR directories are thereat
> all.

As I said - it's just whatever is in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone.  _Your_
machine specifies what it's called - so in your case it's called THRM

> Issuing <cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature> returns:
> temperature:             -269 C
> 
> Something's still fishy here, absolute zero is −273.15 °C.  I'm almost
> positive that my box is more than 4 C. degrees warmer than that but
> still not in the 4 billion degree range.

Well, I expect that ACPI -V simply doesn't expect a signed number, so it
says 4 billion, because that's what you get interpreting the value which
produces -269C (or -452F) as an unsigned value.
> 
> For what it's worth, when I enable thermal_zone/THRM in GKrellM's
> built-in sensors it tells me:  THRM  -452F  which is only 7+ F. degrees
> above absolute zero.

7F = 4C, so at least those two are consistent
-- 
derek