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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel heat warnings at low temps
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:22:11
Message-Id: 200706260716.41695.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kernel heat warnings at low temps by reader@newsguy.com
1 On Montag, 25. Juni 2007, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > I get warnings like these:
3 >
4 > Message from syslogd@reader at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ...
5 > reader kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
6 >
7 > Message from syslogd@reader at Mon Jun 25 16:06:35 2007 ...
8 > reader kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
9 >
10 >
11 > When these warnings occur the hard drive temps are low. hddtemp shows
12 > them at 33c (91.4 f).
13 >
14 > Kind of hard to imagine the cpu overheating when hdd's are so low.
15
16 hddtemp and cputemp are completly and totally unrelated.
17
18 >
19 > How can I discover the cpu temperature? And where is the `threshold'
20 > set?
21
22 emerge lm_sensors
23 run sensors_detect - this will tell you which sensors/drivers are used/needed.
24
25 I don't know about that threshold - since it seems to be independent from
26 lm_sensors - I would say the hardware ;)
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