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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:25:57
Message-Id: 58965d8a0910260725q14afdf00qfb4a2bf79c13a12@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28 by Grant
1 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures
3 > are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the
4 > reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen
5 > this?
6
7 If you are using the "coretemp" sensor module, the logic by which it
8 reports "temperature" changed somewhere in the last few kernels. Also,
9 in many (most?) cases it doesn't report an actual temperature at all
10 but a relative one on a scale from 0-100 based on some operating range
11 defined by Intel? or somebody...