From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 16:05:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1375E106564A for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23248FC08 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so6994040iak.13 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:05:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GZQeuJLZeDNiUftUoqq269ND5mehnjddKzLSf+nDIVE=; b=C9QKopba/ap+fR1G6wpeDZaz1X8uzBMS6ko65gPX8b0lvgtYL/yYvWIsucingB2tCU k5PjaAlzpWATc5EvUmaPfXy7oDomoyU9rtFHpYvfAh2EcpQTkIowg+Sd4MlkkLfzE2jG ZXmvC9TJiGQPCmyDR4pUhfAe8EuxLI1BaL7G4= Received: by 10.231.6.102 with SMTP id 38mr4459084iby.62.1321198668726; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-98-212-197-29.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n30sm26084906ibl.4.2011.11.13.07.37.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:37:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBFE438.8060403@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:37:28 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4EBF294D.6060306@gmail.com> <20111113030251.ed94d59f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20111113030251.ed94d59f.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: apps to display cpu temp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:05:57 -0000 On 11/12/2011 8:02 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:19:57 -0800, Edward Martinez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I have a Pentium 4 and i have been trying to get "coretemp" and >> "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature" to display my Cpu temperture , >> however i have not had any luck using them >> Are there any other apps perhaps from ports that reports CPU temp? > > I've been using the port "xmbmon" for that, in > combination with > > device smbus > device iicbus > device iicsmb > device iicbb > device iic > > in the kernel configuration file - on a Pentium 4 > system. I haven't tried the sysctl method, because > xmbmon did work out of the box. :-) You can also > use mbmon for text output. > > Here's an example from ~/.xinitrc calling xmbmon: > > xmbmon -g 150x100+0+897 \ > -tmin 20.0 -tmax 70.0 \ > -cmtmb CPU -cltmb blue \ > -cmtcpu CS -cltcpu cyan \ > -cmtcs SYS -cltcs green \ > -vmin 2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red& > > Depending on the sensor installation of your > particular system, check if the different values > do match the hardware. Maybe check from within > your CMOS setup for reference values. > > > > For amd, I use dev.cpu.0.temperature. For some reason, it's 15 degrees off compared to the bios and linux. I used benchmarks/stress along with setting specific frequencies to figure out where linux and where freebsd would hit a temperature limit.