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On Sunday 01 June 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > sysutils/mbmon
>
> On one of my computers it crashes my system. What I found about this on
> the Web:
>
> This is a X/tty motherboard monitor which supports LM78/79, WINBond
> 83781D/83782D/83783S, ASUS 991227F, and VIA VT82C686A/B PC-health
> chips via 3 methods: ISA-I/O, SMBus, VIA-direct.
>
> ***CAUTION***
>
> These programs access to the SMBus or the ISA-IO port directly under
> the superuser privilege, so it may cause a system crash.  Please test
> "mbmon -d" or "xmbmon -debug" first.
>
> thanks for sharing,
> Jos

Perhaps sysutils/healthd works for you. 

Also if you have a k8 processor you can use sysutils/k8temp to monitor it's 
temperature. For core2 processors the coretemp kernel module should work.


Good luck,

Pieter de Goeje