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Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)
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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.
> 
> Jiawei Ye
> 


But also not working on ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe or at my lab's ASUS P800! 
On ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe xmbmon worked fine! SMBus never worked on any 
ASUS, don't know why.