From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 27 16:23:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19634 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19603 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-168.laker.net [208.0.233.68]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id TAA23231; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:22:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199810280022.TAA23231@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Nicolas Souchu" Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:21:10 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring capabilities Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:21:22 +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 04:49:23PM -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote: >>I am interested in motherboards that provide the ability to monitor >>various temperature readings, fan speeds, etc. > >Are you interested in providing monitoring capabilities to FreeBSD too? Yes. It's rather pointless to only be able to read the temp when you're in BIOS Setup, right. >> >>I have an ASUS TX97. >> >>Is it possible to read these values from freebsd? If so, has anyone > >Not yet. The driver we'll be available before the end of the year, I >hope. > >>written a daemon to run in the background to monitor interrupts from >>the LM78/75 so freebsd can inform a user at the consoles when temp is >>too high, etc. Can the LM78/75's Over Temp Shutdown feature be used to >>invoke shutdown ?? > >Could user stuff be your part of the work? Sure, I'll sign up for that... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message