BIOS

[raymond house]

Hi Andrew and Joel, I tried what you suggested and that worked ok the acpi
was downloaded, but when I do apci-V it says command not found. Still cant
get any temperatures.  Ray

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quite right Joel.
>
> Thanks for the correction.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca> wrote:
>
>> Before anyone comes asking why that failed, the command should
>> actually be "sudo apt-get install acpi" (without the quotes).
>>
>> 2010/1/13 Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello Raymond,
>> >
>> > Have you tried the utility called "acpi?"  If you're looking for thermal
>> > information on boot, that might not be meaningful. However, if you'd
>> like to
>> > find out what the temperature is after the system has been running for a
>> > while, you can try this utility.
>> >
>> > Type:
>> >
>> > acpi -V
>> >
>> > If you don't have "acpi" installed, in Ubuntu,  you can install it by
>> > typing:
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get acpi
>> >
>> > acpi is an acronym for Advanced Configuration Power Interface. Most
>> > computers would support this. From ACPI you can get laptop battery
>> > information as well as CPU statistics.
>> >
>> > Hopefully this was helpful.
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>> >
>> > Andrew.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello all,  How do I get into BIOS? I want to check temperatures of
>> CPU,
>> >> chassis etc.. as Alfred suggested, but I dont have a clue where to
>> start.
>> >> thanks for your help,   Ray
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