On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 the mental interface of Matthew Polashek told: > OK so after snooping around and with everyone's help I've come to > understand that my powerbook G4 17 has 2 sensors. I believe there is on on > top of the processor and one below, but that could be wrong. The have > limits set to work at different times. Apparently I'm a nervous nelly > because the fan seems to be kicking on just fine, just at a higher > temperature than I though they would. ANyway, there are parameters that > one can set to change when the fan kicks on. I'm not going to mess with > it. Thanks for the help!
A small script to check temps of (g|c)pu and hdd: -------------- #! /bin/sh FANSPEEDCPU=`LC_ALL=de_DE_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor1_fan_speed | sed -e s#rpm#U\/min#` dialog --title " Temperatures of my AlBook G4 " \ --backtitle " `cat /proc/version` at `hostname -f` " \ --infobox \ " cpu fan speed: $FANSPEEDCPU \n \ cpu limit: `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor1_limit` °C\n \ cpu temperature: `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor1_temperature` °C\n \ gpu limit; `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor2_limit` °C \n \ gpu temperature: `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor2_temperature` °C\n \ limit adjust: `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/limit_adjust` \n \ specified fan speed: `LC_ALL=de_DE cat /sys/devices/temperatures/specified_fan_speed` \n \ hdd temp: `LC_ALL=de_DE hddtemp /dev/hda | awk '{print $4}'| sed -e s/°/\ °/`" 12 45 # vim:tw=120 --------------- Elimar -- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.