Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:25:19 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>, stable@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls) Message-ID: <44C85C4F.7030902@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e20607261917q51cbd5f4r32f4b8ee3a5469eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <20060726160952.GW17014@poupinou.org> <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu> <44C7BA05.7020508@rogers.com> <c21e92e20607261917q51cbd5f4r32f4b8ee3a5469eb@mail.gmail.com>
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Jiawei Ye wrote: > On 7/27/06, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> 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.
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