Thermal / Temperature Monitor on RHEL4

[Glenn Morris]

Douglas Kosovic wrote:

> The lm_sensors package (and the gnome-applet-sensors GUI) that comes 
> with Fedora 8 works with an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 CPU in a Precision T3400.
>
> I suspect the lm_sensors package that comes with RHEL4 might be too old. 
> You might be able to rebuild the Fedora 8 lm_sensors RPM on RHEL4 by 
> downloading lm_sensors-2.10.4-2.fc8.src.rpm from:


I've wanted temperature monitoring for Precision systems for a long
time, so I tried this out. sensors-detect says the T3400 needs the
coretemp kernel module, introduced in 2.6.22. It seems this module
can't be built even on RHEL5.1 without patching the (2.6.18) kernel
(for register_hotcpu_notifier), so sadly it looks like temperature
monitoring for Precisions under RHEL is still some years off.