Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:45:22 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Temperature monitoring on old desktop - Dell OptiPlex SX270? Message-ID: <20080804204522.98cb8b5e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20080803134328.GA65256@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080803015053.e67a39ee.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20080803031912.GA38781@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080803135251.60d4bb7d.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20080803134328.GA65256@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:43:28 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Then the only possibility is to take a very high-resolution photo > (read: 2048x1536 or higher) and send it to someone who can identify Ok, if I want to do that, I guess my Fujifilm Finepix F40fd (8 Mpixel) shold be able. > ICs (I'm good at recognising H/W monitoring ICs :-) ). But even that > won't guarantee anything; an IC that supports H/W monitoring may be For now, I'll lok at software tests to identify anything. > The P4 TM feature is more of a thermal manager and not so much a > "monitor" in the sense of what you think it might be (re: ability to > provide thermal statistics to a program). It *is* a "monitor" in the > sense that it reads temperature, but there's no way to access that > internal data. Yes, Dan Nelson also explained that to me. Thanks for explaining! > You could try Linux. Their lm-sensors project is incredibly thorough, Ok, I did so yesterday, see the SX270 and Xubuntu page[1]. > but based on what I've looked at in the code, it's hit-or-miss. It I tested with sensors-detect from lm-sensors, but it was a miss. :-( sensors-detect output here[2]. > Again, this would only allow you to detect whether or not there's an > actual H/W monitoring IC on the board somewhere. I'm strongly > doubting there is. It seems you are right. References: 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/sx270_xubuntu 2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/sx270-xubuntu-sensors-detect-2008080.txt BTW, I will be traveling for about a week now, and don't know if I will have any connectivity at all. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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