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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:05:04 +0000
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI temperature
Message-ID:  <C392492E-A325-4E92-B97C-94338AD21745@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com>
References:  <200912042337.04403.freebsd@insightbb.com>

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On 5 Dec 2009, at 04:37, Steven Friedrich wrote:

> I sent this to questions last Sunday, but only one person responded.  
> He's
> running FreeBSD 8 and I think his system is reporting bogus temps too.
> I think there might be a missing scaling factor. I'm a hardware guy,  
> but I
> don't currently have temperature measuring equipment and I would  
> want to do it
> on one of my towers (which are currently in storage), not my laptop  
> anyway.
>
> I booted my HP Pavilion zd8215us and I immediately invoked  
> chkCPUTemperature.
> The first temp reported was 52C, which is 125.6F. This leads me to  
> believe
> that acpi has an anomaly regarding temperature measurement. The  
> ambient temp
> was 71F (21.6C). The machine had been off for over eight hours.

As others have said, 52C is pretty normal.

--
Rui Paulo




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