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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:58:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Niklas Sorensson <nik@cs.chalmers.se>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acpi_thermal
Message-ID:  <20050427095758.N59710@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <58705.83.226.116.53.1114535706.squirrel@webmail.chalmers.se>
References:  <58705.83.226.116.53.1114535706.squirrel@webmail.chalmers.se>

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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Niklas Sorensson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm about to change cpu-fan on my Athlon64 computer, and would
> like to be able to monitor the temperature to make sure that
> everything is ok.
>
> However, i have no "hw.acpi.thermal" sysctl entry. Does it have
> to be enabled somehow, or is it not supported by the driver (or
> even worse, not supported by the hardware)?

It has to be supported by your BIOS ( which supplies the ACPI methods to
inquiry the hardware).

You might try the xmbmon port.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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