Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:21:10 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Nicolas Souchu" <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hardware monitoring capabilities Message-ID: <199810280022.TAA23231@laker.net>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:21:22 +0000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 04:49:23PM -0400, Steve Friedrich wrote: >>I am interested in motherboards that provide the ability to monitor >>various temperature readings, fan speeds, etc. > >Are you interested in providing monitoring capabilities to FreeBSD too? Yes. It's rather pointless to only be able to read the temp when you're in BIOS Setup, right. >> >>I have an ASUS TX97. >> >>Is it possible to read these values from freebsd? If so, has anyone > >Not yet. The driver we'll be available before the end of the year, I >hope. > >>written a daemon to run in the background to monitor interrupts from >>the LM78/75 so freebsd can inform a user at the consoles when temp is >>too high, etc. Can the LM78/75's Over Temp Shutdown feature be used to >>invoke shutdown ?? > >Could user stuff be your part of the work? Sure, I'll sign up for that... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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