Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:51:47 -0700 From: Derek Kulinski <takeda@takeda.tk> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem reading vitals from Gigabyte H77-DH3H Message-ID: <20121017205147.GB36106@chinatsu.takeda.tk> In-Reply-To: <507F1761.1010202@FreeBSD.org> References: <1286515493.20121017131543@takeda.tk> <507F1761.1010202@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:38:57PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > I've found that on quite a few modern systems the ACPI platform advertises some > useless thermal zones, which always return some hardcoded temperatures. > E.g. I have Asus P8Z77-M PRO near me and it also reports two thermal zones. > Looking at DSDT (acpidump -dt) I see that the temperatures are hardcoded. > > It seems that your motherboard has an ITE Super I/O with hardware monitoring > function. I am not sure which model though... > Your best bet would be it(4) driver, but it is not committed yet. > If you are into some mild hacking (applying patches, building custom kernel), > then I can point you to the patches. > Although I can not give a firm guarantee that the driver supports your HWM chip, > since I don't know the model. I'm open to experimenting. It's kind of important to me, because I recently had heating issue (that I hopefully fixed) and I wasn't aware of problems until my system started freezing. I was fooled by those values thinking everything was ok. > [...] > > These tools from ports are very outdated and thus do not support new hardware. I never used them before since on my old box hw.acpi.thermal worked fine. Is there anything in ports that you would recommend? Thanks, Derek
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