temperature (was: FAO Ubuntu team : feature request : CPU frequency control ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> i tried some packages that mention temperature in the description,
> but the only one i got running is on the console:
> sudo hddtemp dev/hda
> which is nice when you have those hot maxtor fluid-bearing drives.
> but how do you get measurements from the cpu etc ?
> 
> kind regards     philippe

Hi Philippe, wow, I wrote this message 3 months ago ! I am impressed...

For the CPU temp, as I said in the very mail you just quoted, you can
just type for example : 

"tail /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature"


HTH


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Vince