If you try to view the $acpitemp with unpatched conky you always get 0 using 2.6.36 without old acpi compatibility or using 2.6.37 even with that option enabled. This is due to changes in the kernel, it no longer uses /proc/acpi and conky searchs there the temperature value. It's solved upstream so I got the patch from oficial git, and made an -r1 with it. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.9.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 PUEL AdobeFlash-10 AdobeFlash-10.1 AdobeFlash-9.0.31.0" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/Spring" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.33/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri exif fortran gdbm gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k libnotify mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pch pcre perl png policykit pppd python qt3support readline sdl session sse sse2 ssl startup-notification sysfs tcpd tiff udev unicode xcb xinerama xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 ppc x86_64 arm" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="ppc arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l vesa vga" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash menu brightness" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 260146 [details, diff] conky-1.8.1-thermal.patch
Created attachment 260148 [details] conky-1.8.1-r1.ebuild
Origin of the patch: http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=blobdiff;f=src/linux.cc;h=bfb006313263b732d64d15321484a5ecaa6ca07c;hp=ae97f48604b3361f78416ab02e5d8b26908f0685;hb=1b90218c339467770254aba03e3f0a3acc4af4b0;hpb=b902b70e96226891c4e5f780f3b31bb1e84dcbbf
+*conky-1.8.1-r1 (11 Feb 2011) + + 11 Feb 2011; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> +conky-1.8.1-r1.ebuild, + +files/conky-1.8.1-acpitemp.patch, +files/conky-1.8.1-secunia-SA43225.patch: + Revision bump to fix security bug #354061 and also bug #352012. Should be fixed now. Thanks for your report.