On 28 December 2017 at 13:55, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 01:11:56PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > root@bong:/boot# sudo modprobe coretemp > > modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'coretemp': No such device > > > > > > This is odd because coretemp is set as a module option in the config > file: > > > > CONFIG_SENSORS_CORETEMP=m > > > > Comments appreciared > > Well, it *should* work with a standard Debian kernel and applicable > hardware. > > wooledg:~$ /sbin/modinfo coretemp > filename: /lib/modules/4.9.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp. > ko > license: GPL > description: Intel Core temperature monitor > author: Rudolf Marek <r.ma...@assembler.cz> > alias: cpu:type:x86,ven0000fam*mod*:feature:*01C0* > depends: > intree: Y > vermagic: 4.9.0-4-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions > parm: tjmax:TjMax value in degrees Celsius (int) > > Your "No such device" error sounds like it probed for hardware and didn't > find any. If the module itself were missing from the file system, then > I would have expected "FATAL: Module coretemp not found in directory ...". > > It says "Intel" in the description. Are you using an Intel CPU? > Here is the output of lscpu: root@bong:/home/mikef# lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 21 Model: 2 Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Stepping: 0 CPU MHz: 4334.834 BogoMIPS: 8669.66 Virtualization: AMD-V L1d cache: 16K L1i cache: 64K L2 cache: 2048K L3 cache: 8192K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb cpb hw_pstate vmmcall bmi1 arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold root@bong:/home/mikef# It looks like an FX8350 chip to me. Comments appreciated Regards MF
