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Date:      Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:26:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Niklas Sorensson" <nik@cs.chalmers.se>
To:        "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acpi_thermal
Message-ID:  <57802.83.226.116.53.1114633602.squirrel@webmail.chalmers.se>
In-Reply-To: <20050427095758.N59710@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <58705.83.226.116.53.1114535706.squirrel@webmail.chalmers.se> <20050427095758.N59710@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Niklas Sorensson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm about to change cpu-fan on my Athlon64 computer, and would
>> like to be able to monitor the temperature to make sure that
>> everything is ok.
>>
>> However, i have no "hw.acpi.thermal" sysctl entry. Does it have
>> to be enabled somehow, or is it not supported by the driver (or
>> even worse, not supported by the hardware)?
>
> It has to be supported by your BIOS ( which supplies the ACPI methods to
> inquiry the hardware).
>
> You might try the xmbmon port.

This worked well. Thanks!

/Niklas



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