On 26 Oct 1998, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. What package and version did you have problems with? Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paralogic, Inc. | PEAK | Voice:+610.861.6960 115 Research Drive | PARALLEL | Fax:+610.861.8247 Bethlehem, PA 18017 USA | PERFORMANCE | http://www.plogic.com -------------------------------------------------------------------
