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From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc: David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>, stable@freebsd.org,
	Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:25:19AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Jiawei Ye wrote:
> >On 7/27/06, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> wrote:
> >>I don't want to spend $50 extra per system, just so i can read the
> >>temperature, and not even use any of the IPMI functions. I need a simple
> >>and scriptable way to get the values, acpi sysctls are ideal for this.
> >What about using SMBus? Is it available on your system? xmbmon reads
> >temperatures off the SMBus IIRC.
> 
> I tried that, unfortunately it does not work. All i want to know is if 
> this a shortcoming of freebsd or the motherboard, if its the later, i 
> will contact the manufacturer.

Could you please try (if you have a working smb device)

# smbmsg -p

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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