Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 1999/08/25

 > Is there any way to monitor CPU temperature from within Linux?  I have
 > a Gigabyte 6bxd motherboard and the bios supports CPU temperature
 > monitoring, but as far as I know there is no method for checking the
 > cpu temperature from bios once the OS is loaded up.  Any clues?  Is
 > there anything in /proc that I can check?
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Check out http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ which provides a kernel modules (very easy to compile) which will create a /proc entry to read the temperature. Your can also check out www.freshmeat.net for "temperature monitors" or "lm78" programs.

Prasanth Kumar