Temperature monitoring on Dell Precision M4500 under Linux: sensors-detect doesn't, what next?

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Published on 2010-06-27T22:26:10Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 5:22 UTC
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I have a Dell Precision M4500, Intel Core i5 CPU, running Linux (Ubuntu Lucid), and would like to keep an eye on CPU temperature.

I've tried lm-sensors: sensors-detect didn't find any sensors; following its hint ("This is relatively common on laptops, where thermal management is handled by ACPI rather than the OS.") I tried acpi -V but got nothing thermal. The Gnome panel applet "Hardware Sensors Monitor" reports on GPU temperature but nothing else.

What should I be trying next?

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