From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 20:51:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5503BA4D; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from takeda@chinatsu.takeda.tk) Received: from chinatsu.takeda.tk (takeda-1-pt.tunnel.tserv15.lax1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:c:16b::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAC68FC12; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chinatsu.takeda.tk (localhost.takeda.tk [127.0.0.1]) by chinatsu.takeda.tk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9HKpoRa036548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from takeda@chinatsu.takeda.tk) Received: (from takeda@localhost) by chinatsu.takeda.tk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q9HKplqY036547; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from takeda) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:51:47 -0700 From: Derek Kulinski To: Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: Problem reading vitals from Gigabyte H77-DH3H Message-ID: <20121017205147.GB36106@chinatsu.takeda.tk> References: <1286515493.20121017131543@takeda.tk> <507F1761.1010202@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <507F1761.1010202@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:51:51 -0000 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:38:57PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I've found that on quite a few modern systems the ACPI platform advertises some > useless thermal zones, which always return some hardcoded temperatures. > E.g. I have Asus P8Z77-M PRO near me and it also reports two thermal zones. > Looking at DSDT (acpidump -dt) I see that the temperatures are hardcoded. > > It seems that your motherboard has an ITE Super I/O with hardware monitoring > function. I am not sure which model though... > Your best bet would be it(4) driver, but it is not committed yet. > If you are into some mild hacking (applying patches, building custom kernel), > then I can point you to the patches. > Although I can not give a firm guarantee that the driver supports your HWM chip, > since I don't know the model. I'm open to experimenting. It's kind of important to me, because I recently had heating issue (that I hopefully fixed) and I wasn't aware of problems until my system started freezing. I was fooled by those values thinking everything was ok. > [...] > > These tools from ports are very outdated and thus do not support new hardware. I never used them before since on my old box hw.acpi.thermal worked fine. Is there anything in ports that you would recommend? Thanks, Derek