Date: 20 Nov 2001 08:52:01 -0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <H.Schmalzbauer@belenus.com> To: Andreas Berg <andy@flame.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Hardware Monitoring Message-ID: <1006249921.1696.13.camel@adm01.belenus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111182225540.15035-100000@kechara.flame.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111182225540.15035-100000@kechara.flame.org>
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Am Mo , 2001-11-19 um 07.26 schrieb Andreas Berg: > Greetings, Hello, I don't know the KX133 chipset but the in general you need: device smb device smbus device alp for the ali chipset device intpm for the Intel BX chipset device ichsmb for the Intel -810 and -815 chipset (ICH and ICH2) Probably the KX133 isn't compatible with one of these. Unfortunately my C knowlegde is horrible so my attempt to do a driver for the ServerWorks chip resulted in almost no success. The only thing I got working is the ASUS AS27??? chipset for healthd. (The layer above SMBus) I sent the code to Jim Housley, perhaps he'll release a new version soon. Best regards, -Harry > > I'm trying to get Hardware Monitoring to work on my FreeBSD system but > even when I follow instructions, it wont work. > > The utilities I'm trying to get to work are: > consolehm-1.31_1 Console based hardware monitor for FreeBSD > /usr/ports/sysutils/consolehm > wmhm-1.45_1 WindowMaker dockable hardware monitor for FreeBSD > /usr/ports/sysutils/wmhm > wmlmmon-0.60 WM dock app to display info from MB power management > contro > /usr/ports/sysutils/wmlmmon > > The problems I get are: > root@voyager:~> chm > Failed to open /dev/smb0. > > root@voyager:~> wmhm > Failed to open /dev/smb0. > Possible reasons: > - Your kernel does not support SMBUS. > - You are not running wmhm suid root. > - WMHM is already running. > > root@voyager:~> wmlmmon > Failed to open device /dev/smb0. > If your system does not support intpm(4), > try to use /dev/io (-i flag) or check > the permissions of /dev/smb0. > > According to man files I need the following in my kernel: > controller smbus0 > controller iicbus0 > controller iicbb0 > controller intpm0 > device smb0 at smbus? > > Since I use FreeBSD 4.4, the above no longer exists in the kernel config, > so, I've got these instead (some of them are probably not needed, but I > added more and more to see if they where needed but with all these > enabled, it still wouldn't work.) > # SMB bus > device smbus > device intpm > device alpm > device ichsmb > device smb > > # I2C Bus > device iicbus > device iicbb > device ic > device iic > device iicsmb > > options HW_WDOG > > My motherboard is a Epox EP-7KXA and its got a VIA Apollo KX133 chipset. > (Perhaps the Via chipsets are not supported at this time?) > > I've also tried to remove and recreate /dev/smb0 but nothing helps, still > the same error. > > Any suggestions? Does anyone successfully monitor a VIA based board? > > cheers, > Andy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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