In article <70uvpv$1ib$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Utz-Uwe Haus) writes: > Douglas Ridgway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Gavin M. Roy wrote: >>> Anyone know of a package to get cpu temp from the bios? my motherboard >>> supports this, but I am unaware of a program to us. >> There's a bunch of different packages floating around, and they are all >> called lm78. > Well, not quite. > For you folks out there stricken with the Gigabyte 'ACOPS'-health monitor > there is AFAIK no way to use the lm-package. However there is a tiny modules > for these boards too (the ACOPS design is braindead and delivers about that > much info only.) An old package should be floating around the net (search > for acops.*), or ask me for a 2.1-patched version. > Or get an ASUS board [which I wish I had done] Also be very careful with the lm78 code floating around. The version I have seen uses floating point in the kernel, which is forbidden in Linux. Result is that it will randomly corrupt the floating point registers of innocent user processes. I reported it to the maintainer, but never got an answer. -Andi
