acpi -V gives me gibberish.

[Derek Broughton]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>  said:
>> Well, I expect that ACPI -V simply doesn't expect a signed number, so
>> it says 4 billion, because that's what you get interpreting the value
>> which produces -269C (or -452F) as an unsigned value.
> 
> Then my problem seems to be getting a real temp reading so I can set the
> offset properly.

yes.

> Now if I could only figure what they should actually be.  Maybe I
> shuld shut off my machine and allow it to return to ambient temp and set
> it newly booted from that state?

I've never actually seen a reliable temperature from a cold boot.  I suspect
that the temperature in the CPU rises quickly enough that by the time you
can actually look at it, it's well above ambient.
-- 
derek