Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:36:48 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Andreas Berg <andy@flame.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Hardware Monitoring Message-ID: <20011120083648.A45035@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111182225540.15035-100000@kechara.flame.org>; from andy@flame.org on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 22:26:31 -0800 References: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111182225540.15035-100000@kechara.flame.org>
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On 2001.11.18 22:26 Andreas Berg wrote: > Greetings, > > 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 > xmbmon works with VIA chipsets. Other monitors do not support VIA chipsets. -- jmc || MacroHard -- \ || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | || design . . . | =======================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =======================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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