Im currently running the latest FC5 kernel (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5). Looking in: /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5/kernel/drivers/acpi I see only: ac.ko battery.ko ibm_acpi.ko video.ko asus_acpi.ko button.ko toshiba_acpi.ko I was hopeing to find a fan & thermal module also. I assume this means these were not compiled into this kernel. Is that a correct assumption? I am fearful that to get these I will need to recompile this kernel - something that makes me break out in hives. thoughts anyone?

Laurence Vanek wrote: >I have directories titled "fan" & "thermal_zone" but they are empty. I >assumed it was because I dont seem to have a thermal.ko & fan.ko to >load. lsmod does show "button" & "battery" acpi modules loaded. wonder >what the deal is? > If you have the directory, but it is empty, then the module is loaded, but it did not find any hardware it could monitor. The way I understand it, if the BIOS ACPI code does not define how to access the hardware, then loading the module does nothing. This is why you have the asus_acpi, ibm_acpi, toshiba_acpi, and omnibook modules. They provide another way to access the hardware, if your machine is supported. The acpitool program knows how to access the settings of the first 3 of those modules, and give you the information. You can double check if you have the modules by running "modprobe fan" or "modprobe thermal" as root. If it finds the modules, it will return without an error message, but if you do not have them, it will tell you that the module was not found. Mikkel

I already have tried loading those 2 modules using modprobe. I get "FATAL: Module thermal not found" for both of them. Recently updated my bios so Im fairly sure thats not the problem. I can see hardware monitoring info in bios setup but dont have the thermal or fan modules to look at them using acpitools. Perhaps I should have asked if anyone running FC5 has these 2 modules loaded & working.