From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 13:53:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F87F16A4DD; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E671D43D45; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:53:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6SDre2h086241; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:53:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:48:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <44C85C4F.7030902@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <44C85C4F.7030902@rogers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607280948.51239.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:53:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1624/Thu Jul 27 13:11:25 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Mike Jakubik , stable@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot , Jiawei Ye , David Duchscher Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:53:43 -0000 On Thursday 27 July 2006 02:25, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Jiawei Ye wrote: > > On 7/27/06, Mike Jakubik 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. If ACPI doesn't include the sysctl's that's due to your BIOS, not FreeBSD. You can verify by doing an acpidump and seeing if you have any thermal zones listed in your ASL. -- John Baldwin