Introduction
If you have a laptop with Linux, and would like to check the battery level, and temperature of the CPU, you may use acpi
If you find that acpi is not installed, on your system, use your package manager to install it
Using acpi to check battery level and CPU temperature
Once you have acpi installed on your system, you can use it to check different physical parameters on your Linux Lapt
I own a acer 5720 laptop. I recently upgraded to karmic from jaunty. When I started working, I noticed some heat problems. Using lmsensors, I see core temperature increase constantly (raising even to 85 C), but acpi temperature does not suffer any change.
I found this issue:
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple
acpi -V
to get a listing similar to this one:
Hello everyone, I'm a new Fedora user, I'm running F12 x86_64 on a Dell Studio 17 (1737) laptop and everything is fine for me with this distro except for one or two issues.
When I use the suspend to RAM functionality (Acpi state S3) everything works fine but when the computer resumes from suspend state the CPU fan is not working any more and the output of acpitool is:
Hi!
Due to a faulty BIOS it seems as if Ubuntu is unable to turn the fan on again after it has once been turned off, leading to the laptop becoming really hot. The fan is turned off when it goes below 50C. If I boot with ACPI=off the fan runs all the time which is fine with me.
I see two solutions to which I need some advice:
I have a HP Compaq 8510p laptop that I just installed OpenSuse 11.2. Since I had it running, the laptop runs noticebly hotter than when in windows - even under very little load, basically web surfin. It gets so hot it makes my hands sweat! The fan also runs a bit louder and it always spitting out hot air. Ive done a little research and haven't come up with much.
HI. I'm currently using this script to display the CPU temperature on my taskbar using genmon:
#!/bin/bash
echo "<txt>"$(cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature | sed 's/\ \ */ /g' | cut -f2 -d" ")" C</txt>"
The display says 57000 C, which I know isn't happening, it's more likely that it's 57 degrees C.
Hello guys,I have a question that isn't geting answered over at the Arch boards, so I figured I'd try here. The question is about different temperature readings from different applications. In the past, I have always used acpi -t to read my temps and I figured that Thermal 0 was my CPU and Thermal 1 was my GPU.
I have been having this issue since I built this computer (2 years) so I am familiar with my issue but I am new to Ubuntu (four months). I keep hoping each new kernel will be my savior, but not so far. I am looking for a fix to this long standing issue...please read on.