From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 17:09:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9957E16A400 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from astro.systems.pipex.net (astro.systems.pipex.net [62.241.163.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589DD13C4BB for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [192.168.23.2] (62-31-10-181.cable.ubr05.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.10.181]) by astro.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C27E0002EF; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:09:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <467AB0D5.7070504@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:09:41 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laszlo Nagy References: <467A8915.1010506@shopzeus.com> <467A8DA3.70500@dial.pipex.com> <467A9C5B.80308@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <467A9C5B.80308@shopzeus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware monitor needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:09:44 -0000 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