Grabbing data from my motherboard thermistor?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:07:38PM -0500, Gustavo Cordova wrote:
> You need a device driver to read the data from the thermistor;
> that driver must make that information available to userland
> programs; which in turn should be able to read the info from
> some kind of device file or pseudo-file (like unix's "/dev/*" files)

   In Linux, those devices usually put their information in /proc
filesystem in a way that looks like pretty standard text files - open,
read, parse, that's all.

Oleg.
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