Measuring temperature on R500 chips

[DoDoENT]

Is it possible to measure temperature of R500-based ATI graphics card?

It doesn't seem to work for me though...

dodo@2nd-of-12:~/private/Documents/Linux/change_powerstate$ aticonfig --adapter=0 --od-gettemperature
ERROR - Get temperature failed for Adapter 0 - ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Does R500-based cards have temperature sensor at all?

[DoDoENT]

Any ideas? Anyone? Please!

[rafi]

The x1600 mobility doesn't support overdrive so you can't use aticonfig to get the temperature of your radeon.

I use lm-sensors with my laptop and it works fine. I have these results:

raphael@raphael-laptop:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +50.0°C (crit = +256.0°C)
temp2: +41.0°C (crit = +105.0°C)
temp3: +49.0°C (crit = +110.0°C)
temp4: +37.0°C (crit = +80.0°C)
temp5: +25.8°C (crit = +105.0°C)
temp6: +55.0°C (crit = +110.0°C)

If i change the powerplay mode of my card from 1 to 3 i have this:

Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +50.0°C (crit = +256.0°C)
temp2: +43.0°C (crit = +105.0°C)
temp3: +60.0°C (crit = +110.0°C)
temp4: +37.0°C (crit = +80.0°C)
temp5: +26.5°C (crit = +105.0°C)
temp6: +55.0°C (crit = +110.0°C)

So temp3 is for the graphic card of my laptop, maybe it'll work for you.

[DoDoENT]

Thanks, this works for me too!