Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:07:40 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A curious dmesg output entry Message-ID: <1034878060.2e2b2920jud@myrealbox.com>
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From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:35 +0100
Subject: Re: A curious dmesg output entry
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:58:51AM -0400, John Bleichert wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > That's a supported chipset:
> >
> > happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
> > # viapm VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers
> > device viapm
> >
> > You need to add:
> >
> > device smbus
> > device viapm
> > device smb
> >
>
> Where did you get 'viapm' from? Are *all* the possibilities documented
> somewhere? Is there a central resource for all the possible kernel
> config entries ? After seeing your post I found the
> viapm(4) man page but I never would have known about it otherwise.
The LINT kernel configuration is meant to contain all possible devices
and options. As I remember I was trying to set up monitoring of my
motherboard and CPU temperatures, which I knew from previous
experience required use of SMBus devices, so I experimented with some
of the stuff in the LINT kernel until I found something that worked.
Cheers,
Matthew
PS. You might find the sysutils/xmbmon port interesting.
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Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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After trying and failing to get the xmbmon port to
work, I found that the author has a 2.0 version of
xmbmon available at his website. It's FreeBSD native,
supports the latest motherboards, and is quite easy to
install. No extra SMBus stuff needed in the kernel.
I just had to remove "disable" in the kernel line re
APM and put apm_enable="1" (or was it "YES?") in
/etc/rc.conf.
The author also has FVCool, a CPU cooling utility. It
reduces my CPU temp by 14 or 15 degrees C (from 46 to
32 or 31). Again, it's native and easy to install.
(BTW, yes I do have CPU_SUSP_HLT in my kernel options.
This utility is obviously doing something the kernel
option isn't. The author says the same thing the
utility does can be accomplished with pciconf, but I
don't know how.)
Jud
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