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depontius
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 Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:32 pm Post subject: Modern Thinkpad and lm_sensors - safe? |
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Years back, running lm_sensors was a surefire way to brick your Thinkpad. I get the impression that that is no longer the case, but have no idea when that became true.
I've had a new T440P since this summer, but haven't taken the time to turn it into a real laptop yet. It's been a portable desktop so far, with very little time on battery. I'm sitting down to change that now, laptop-ify it, and make it generally more useful.
It would be handy to have gkrellm / lm_sensors, but I'm cautious about that latter package. Non-functional software is one thing, bricking the hardware is another.
Is it safe?
Any more info / history? (So far I haven't found it, just references that it has apparently become safe, some time in the last decade.)
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| Quote: | | Years back, running lm_sensors was a surefire way to brick your Thinkpad. I get the impression that that is no longer the case, but have no idea when that became true. |
glad I didn't know that 
lm_sensors ran without any problem on my T440S
here's sample output of the detected sensors:
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acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +34.0°C (crit = +200.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0: +35.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +34.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +33.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
thinkpad-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
fan1: 0 RPM |
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nictki
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W530 here since few years and no problems noticed.
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