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This page aims to summarize known information about the locations and properties of thermal sensors on ThinkPad laptops. | This page aims to summarize known information about the locations and properties of thermal sensors on ThinkPad laptops. | ||
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==Accessing the sensors== | ==Accessing the sensors== | ||
===ACPI system temperature sensors=== | ===ACPI system temperature sensors=== | ||
Revision as of 21:22, 17 January 2006
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This page aims to summarize known information about the locations and properties of thermal sensors on ThinkPad laptops. |
Accessing the sensors
ACPI system temperature sensors
The primary means of accessing the thermal sensors is through the ibm-acpi module, which provides up to 11 thermal sensors (some of which may be inactive) when loaded with the experimental=1 option. Up to eight thermal sensors are exposed at /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal:
# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermaltemperatures: 44 41 33 42 33 -128 30 -128
On some models there are three additional sensors at Embedded Controller offsets 0xC0 to 0xC2, which can be read by parsing /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump:
# perl -ne 'm/^EC 0xc0: .(..) .(..) .(..) / or next; print hex($1)." ".hex($2)." ".hex($3)."\n"' < /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump40 48 43
HDAPS temperature sensor
The Active Protection System accelerometer also reports a temperature (but it is not certain that the sensor location is inside the HDAPS chip):
# cat /sys/bus/platform/drivers/hdaps/hdaps/temp141
Harddisks temperature sensor
Finally, the hard disk temperature can be read through the SMART interface:
# smartctl -A /dev/hda194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 145 097 000 Old_age Always - 31
Sensor locations
This information is model specific.
ThinkPad R51
The ibm-acpi documentation includes the report by Thomas Gruber:
EC offset Index in "thermal" Location (estimated) 0x78 1 CPU 0x79 2 Mini-PCI 0x7A 3 HDD 0x7B 4 GPU 0x7C 5 Battery 0x7D 6 n/a 0x7E 7 Battery 0x7F 8 n/a 0xC0 none ? 0xC1 none ? 0xC2 none ?
ThinkPad T40
The location of one of the sensors is identified here.
EC offset Index in "thermal" Location (estimated) 0x78 1 CPU 0x79 2 System board under rear left corner of Mini-PCI module 0x7A 3 ? 0x7B 4 GPU 0x7C 5 Battery 0x7D 6 n/a 0x7E 7 Battery 0x7F 8 n/a 0xC0 none n/a 0xC1 none n/a 0xC2 none n/a
ThinkPad T43, T43p
Found by Shmidoax using cooling spray to cool down components and observe the effect on the sensors.
EC offset Index in "thermal" Location (estimated) 0x78 1 CPU 0x79 2 Between PCMCIA slot and CPU (same as HDAPS module) 0x7A 3 PCMCIA slot 0x7B 4 GPU 0x7C 5 Battery (front left) 0x7D 6 n/a 0x7E 7 Battery (rear right) 0x7F 8 n/a 0xC0 none Bus between Northbridge and DRAM 0xC1 none Southbridge (under Mini-PCI card, under touchpad) 0xC2 none Power circuitry, on underside of system board under F2 key
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