Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:09:41 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware monitor needed Message-ID: <467AB0D5.7070504@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <467A9C5B.80308@shopzeus.com> References: <467A8915.1010506@shopzeus.com> <467A8DA3.70500@dial.pipex.com> <467A9C5B.80308@shopzeus.com>
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Laszlo Nagy wrote: > >> Check out healthd or mbmon. One or other has worked OK for me on >> other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think). >> >> If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can >> check those. >> sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm' >> or >> sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*tz' >> >> one or other should be a good enough incantation. None of my ASUS >> mobos do have thermal zones so I can't be sure -- it's much more >> commonly supported in laptops. >> >> Or just >> >> sysctl -a | egrep acpi > > I do not have anything that looks like temperature. Is it still > possible to use healthd or mbmon? > Yes. healthd and mbmon try to talk to the monitoring chip directly, so they can work with or without thermal zones. The only way to know *if* they work on your particular board is to try them :-( They don't take long to compile. >> PS Many disks which support SMART can display their apparent temp as >> one of the SMART parameters (see sysutils/smartmontools). Not 100% >> trustworthy, but better than nowt. I'd rather fry the processor than >> a disk :-) > > > I'm not affraid of that. I have gmirror-ed disks and they are much > cheaper than the processor ( E6320 ). It's not the cost of the disks that worries me, it's the cost of the data! Yes, I mirror, and yes I back up to another server. But if one disk in a server overheats, likelihood is that the others will too :-( I just like low temperatures all round. No idea re gnome-volume-manage; don't even know what it is. Sorry. --Alex
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