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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:17:56 +0800
From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com>
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Cc: David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>, stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)
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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.

Jiawei Ye

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