Re: Processor Temp
Re: Processor Temp
- Subject: Re: Processor Temp
- From: "Robert J. Accettura" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:36:26 -0500
Thanks for the information. I hoped it was possible, as several Apps
did so under OS 9 with success (SonnetTech's Metronome, XLR8's Mach
Speed Control I believe did the same... Newer Tech had a utility as well).
I was hoping there was some way to achieve the capturing of that data
with minimal work.
Sam Hart wrote:
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Robert wrote:
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> Is there a way to get the processor temp via terminal in OS X?
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I doubt it
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There used to be a function called something like
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getCoreProcessorTemperature() in pre-OSX,
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however I think it has been deprecated ( it was commented out in the
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header ).
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The reason it doesn't appear ( if my memory serves me correct ) is
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that not all PPC support
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manual calibration of the TAU, I can only assume that the chip
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handles it, but I could be wrong.
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> I'd like to script some method to record the processor temp of my old
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> beige G3.
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Well I had it working on a G3 and all my TAU documentation refers to
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the G3 ( 750L I think ).
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If you can avoid doing it I would, the words "DANGER DANGER POISON"
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should be written all over it.
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You would have to do it in kernel space as you would have to be in
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supervisor mode.
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It is not as simple as saying to the chip "How hot are you?" you set
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a pair of interrupts
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( if I remember correctly, which I probably don't ) and pick a low
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value, hoping to be interrupted
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straight away, you increase the value until it no longer interrupts,
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and then you should have your value.
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There is a kext in Jaguar called "AppleCPUThermo.kext", however I
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don't know what it does.
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I write all this so that someone might put me straight or fill in the
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gaps.
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There are also a couple of apps that might help
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<http://homepage.mac.com/takashi_hamada/Acti/MacOSX/ThermoInDock/
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index.html>
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<http://www.kezer.net/thermographx.html>
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though I do not know if they support G3, or log to a file.
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S a m
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