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From: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
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Subject: Re: howto debug acpi_thermal on Dell 2500 servers
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ken Menzel wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am trying to figure out how to use ACPI to get thermal info on
> Dell 2500 servers.  I have compiled acpi into the kernel  (see below
> for problems with acpi as module with ACPI_DEBUG in make.conf).  I
> can't seem to get any addtional info from acpi.   Do I need a debug
> kernel?  Do I have to have more options in my kernel config?  Is
> someone already doing (done?) this and I shouldn't bother to try and
> debug it?

I do know that on the dell 1550, temperature monitoring is done
with an lm80, which didn't seem to want to play with smbus.
(x)mbmon which opens /dev/io directly is able to get temperature
readings. Might be worth a try.

-- 
Sten Spans

There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in.