Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:34:50 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASUS Laptop - CPU Temp utility? Message-ID: <20040910043450.GG5008@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040910035115.GA966@internode.com.au> References: <20040909230933.GB727@internode.com.au> <20040910020300.GE5008@dan.emsphone.com> <20040910035115.GA966@internode.com.au>
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In the last episode (Sep 10), Adam Smith said: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:03:00PM -0500, Dan Nelson said: > > In the last episode (Sep 10), Adam Smith said: > > > Does anyone know of a motherboard monitor utility that I can use > > > on an ASUS laptop running FreeBSD 5.3? I'm not sure which > > > specific board it has. > > > > xmbmon or lmmon should work, and if your laptop has good enough > > acpi support, "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal" might give you temp info as > > well. > > [adam@gremlin /home/adam]# sysctl !$ > sysctl hw.acpi.thermal > hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 3240 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 3630 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3680 > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: 3130 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 I believe all the thermal units are tenths of a degree Kelvin. So 3240 = 324K = 51C = 123F. Definitely running hot :) The _XXX entries are read-only trigger points; see the acpi_thermal manpage for more info. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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