From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 17:24:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4C1106566C for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:24:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout023.mac.com (asmtpout023.mac.com [17.148.16.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DD18FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:24:11 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp023.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L9I00CCIR0A9W50@asmtp023.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:24:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1009290109 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-09-29_08:2010-09-29, 2010-09-29, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4CA34965.3010509@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:24:10 -0700 Message-id: References: <4CA34965.3010509@gmail.com> To: David Demelier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Location of sensors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:24:11 -0000 Hi-- On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:12 AM, David Demelier wrote: > I just wonder how to know the location of the sensors, I got a lot of them on my HP Probook laptop : > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 87.0C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz1.temperature: 47.0C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz2.temperature: 72.0C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz3.temperature: 59.0C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz4.temperature: 26.4C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz5.temperature: 55.0C On a good day, HP will have documented their ACPI zones well enough for you to tell what they are. It's also possible that contacting HP's support might dig up more info. Failing that, however, you might be able to look at the Hardware/Health Status page in the BIOS, note the relative temperatures being displayed and what they are with, and then compare the sysctl output after a boot. You might also be able to boot into Windows and try running a vendor-supplied thermal monitoring utility, and either look for debugging info, perhaps in the logs if it produces any, or again try to figure out the correspondence. Regards, -- -Chuck