[lm-sensors] System: "Point of View ION-MB330-1" produces wrong values with lm-sensors 3.3.2

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:50:14PM -0400, geve001 at casema.nl wrote:
> On slackware, sensors produce a wrong value for CPU temperature for the MB
> "Point of View ION-MB330-1"
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> It is off at least 20 degrees.
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> CPU-0 and CPU-1 differ 10 degrees which is odd. CPU-0 has more load and lower
> temp (see mpstat)
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> Critical temperature should be 125 according to datasheets
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> Some Google topics suggest to add 20 degrees, but in those cases the cpu’s have
> the same low temp.
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> ==> How to tackle this problem??
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> ------------- Linux kernel 2.6.37.6
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> root at atom:~# uname -a
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> Linux atom 2.6.37.6-smp #2 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:39:07 CDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Atom
> (TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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Looks like the CPU does not provide a value for TjMax itself, and we don't detect
the CPU type correctly to adjust it.

Can you provide the output of /proc/cpuinfo ?

As workaround, you can set the module parameter force_tjmax to 125. 

Thanks,
Guenter