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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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