Does acpi-tools still exist?

[stevesr0Member]

I am trying to monitor my cpu fan speed. I have tried lm-sensors, psensor, xsensor and fan speed doesn’t show.

On Linux Questions, I saw a post by our own rokytnji mentioning the need to install acpi and acpi-tools.

I can’t find acpi-tools. There is an acpitool in the repository but that appears to be very different.

My searches haven’t clarified this.

I am hoping that someone will alert rokytnji that I have asked this question in hopes she will respond.
(I still am confused about how to PM people on this forum.)

Appreciate any assistance and comments.

stevesr0

[Anonymous]

how to PM people on this forum

Left side, avatar image + username, displayed with each post.
Clicking the image or the username text will display a page containing a “Send a Message” hyperlink.
( I just checked: when I click on my own name, the “Send a Message” link is not displayed. Aw, shucks. )

[rokytnjiForum Admin]

Documentation for the acpica project.

Man page for acpica-tools in Debian.

Are you sure you have fan sensors?

sensors | grep fan

or

sensors | grep -i fan

Might wanna take a look at using
http://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/s-tui
Instead. The above link for debian sid package. Do not manually install it if not running sid repos. If running Testing. Debian Buster has the same package number available in testing I would think.
http://packages.debian.org/buster/s-tui

Poke and hope experiment and me picking up the broken pieces is usually how I roll. I would install acpica-tools since it is just a module and can be un-installed if still no joy . At this moment . I cannot say if acpica-tools replaced acpi-tools. I usually jest test for myself.

It won’t hurt to post a terminal readout of

lscpi -vnn

in thread either so folks can see your components as well as a

inxi -Fxzr

Termnal readout also. Middle of the night here. Signing off.

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[DaveForum Admin]

I think you need to run sensors-detect to have the sensors command to output more than one line of information.

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[stevesr0Member]

Thanks, Dave.

After posting, I found a post by rokytnji and did PM her. I have had some difficulty in finding people on the forum to get to their avatars…

stevesr0

[stevesr0Member]

Hi rokytnji,

I am responding from another computer, so I can’t attach it at the moment.

After installing acpica, lm-sensors, xsensors and psenssors and running sensors-detect, nothing shows when I run sensors | grep fan or sensors | grep -i fan.

I am not sure if my cpu fan (or computer) has a fan sensor. I recall checking the manual and didn’t see that as a specification, but…

The computer is oldish from about 2006 or 2007 as I recall (a Fujitsu T4220 model).

The current fan is a cheap replacement for the original and I don’t have a manual (or a name) to check on it.

More of academic interest, since the fans seem to turn on when I run something theat stimulates the CPU and then they quiet down.

I am confused by the acpi-tools question. In years past, I thouught that was a separate package or collection of files. Now, can’t find anything under that name — except for your 2012 (?) post in Linux Questions suggesting that it had to be installed.

Has that package been eliminated?

stevesr0

[stevesr0Member]

Hi Dave,

I did run sensors-detect.

stevesr0

[rokytnjiForum Admin]

After installing acpica, lm-sensors, xsensors and psenssors and running sensors-detect, nothing shows when I run sensors | grep fan or sensors | grep -i fan.

Well. My post from 2012 is 7 years old which is ages lately in the linux eco-system. No systemd then. Plus other things work differently since then like Gnome Desktop.
Soo. Experiment time if your game.

sudo apt-get update

Let it finish updating package list first.

sudo apt-get install acpi-support-base

after installing that. Install the recommends

sudo apt-get install acpi-support

Then check and make sure these recommends/depends are also installed .
consolekit
acpi-fakekey

Reboot. Cross fingers. Run sensors-detect again.

Here is ancient Fujitsu bug report. If you are getting cpu cycles better than that bug report. I’d forget about trying to find fan speed sensors on gear so old.

http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/177076

Something I paid attention to when reading the above bug report was

I have the same problems on every linux distro I have tried on this laptop

Fujitsu laptops can be strange creatures because they are designed for corp security/corp laptops, and so because of that have unknown quirks. I learned this from a Fujitsu Puppy Linux dude located south of me in Texas.

PS. I am a dude. Not a she.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by rokytnji.

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[stevesr0Member]

Hi rokytnji,

Thank you sir for the reply. My Fujitsu reports much higher CPU frequencies than 800.

I had everything installed except acpi-fakekey.

I will report back after rebooting.

Still curious – did acpi-tools ever exist and did it go away or was it a figment of my imagination?

stevesr0

[BitJamForum Admin]

There is an “acpitool” package: http://packages.debian.org/stretch/acpitool

AcpiTool is a Linux ACPI client. It’s a small command line application, intended to be a replacement for the apm tool. The primary target audience are laptop users, since these people are most interested in things like battery status, thermal status and the ability to suspend (sleep mode). The program simply accesses the /proc/acpi or /sysfs entries to get or set ACPI values. It also supports various extensions for Toshiba, Asus, and IBM Thinkpad laptops.

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[stevesr0Member]

Thanks BitJam,

I saw that program in the repository. It seemed like that was distinct from the acpi suite.

I am satisfied at the moment that my fans seem to be working normally and I suspect that they don’t have a sensor (or the laptop doesn’t).

At this point, I will consider that my question does acpi-tools exist has been answered in the negative.

stevesr0

[Anonymous]

rokytnji

Thanks for s-tui Nice cli monitor..

rokytnji wrote:

It won’t hurt to post a terminal readout of

lscpi -vnn

lspci -vnn not lscpi

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