From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 11: 8:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703FA37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7CC43E91 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:07:40 -0400 Subject: Re: A curious dmesg output entry From: "Jud" To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:07:40 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1034878060.2e2b2920jud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Seaman 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: > >=20 > > happy-idiot-talk:~:% grep viapm /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT > > # viapm VIA VT82C586B,596,686A and VT8233 SMBus controllers > > device viapm > >=20 > > You need to add: > >=20 > > device=09=09smbus > > device=09=09viapm > > device=09=09smb > >=20 >=20 > Where did you get 'viapm' from? Are *all* the possibilities documented=20 > somewhere? Is there a central resource for all the possible kernel=20 > config entries ? After seeing your post I found the=20 > 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. =09Cheers, =09Matthew PS. You might find the sysutils/xmbmon port interesting. --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK ************************************************* ************************************************* After trying and failing to get the xmbmon port to=20 work, I found that the author has a 2.0 version of=20 xmbmon available at his website. It's FreeBSD native,=20 supports the latest motherboards, and is quite easy to=20 install. No extra SMBus stuff needed in the kernel. =20 I just had to remove "disable" in the kernel line re APM and put apm_enable=3D"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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message