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From: Anthony Campbell on 8 Sep 2009 04:13

On my laptop (HP 6735s) 'acpi -t' tells me the temperature is 256C
(critical). It obviously isn't; the laptop feels quite cool and it is
working normally. Is this a bug in acpi or what?


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From: Phil Stovell on 8 Sep 2009 04:35
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:13:36 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

>
> On my laptop (HP 6735s) 'acpi -t' tells me the temperature is 256C
> (critical). It obviously isn't; the laptop feels quite cool and it is
> working normally. Is this a bug in acpi or what?
>
>
> Anthony


My laptop tells me the temperature is 105C and does a critical shut down
when it means the battery is low! Ubuntu 8.04.
From: anahata on 8 Sep 2009 06:32
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:13:36 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:

> On my laptop (HP 6735s) 'acpi -t' tells me the temperature is 256C
> (critical). It obviously isn't; the laptop feels quite cool and it is
> working normally. Is this a bug in acpi or what?

Identifying the sensors and/or scale factors seems to involve a lot of
guesswork as it's not very standardised. Most systems I've used the
sensors software on (when it works at all) get the system and CPU
temperature muddled up at least, and some voltages are flagged as
"critical" when I'm sure they aren't.

That's on desktops - I'm sure laptops could be even worse.

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