On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:54:13PM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:29:59PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >             Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > : ACPI records temperature in tenths of a Kelvin, if you can believe it :)
> > 
> > I don't believe that. 369.2K is 96.2C, which is over 200F.  That seems
> > to hot to me.  My laptop says 2982, which is either about 30C or
> > 15.2C.  Given how warm it is on my leg at the moment, I'd guess it is
> > centi-Celcius.  Maybe converted internally?
> 
>       Why not the use http://people.freebsd.org/~hmp/acpi_temp.c

19:07:39 Tue Jun 17 $ ./acpi_temp 
System temperature = 333.2 K  60.0 C  140.0 F

hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3332

but all that program does is read the oid and do the math just like I did 
on my TI-85.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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