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
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