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On 14/05/2015 13:25, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 05/13/15 22:48, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 May 2015 22:08:57 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>
>>> My sysctl is reporting nonsense temps for my CPU:
>>>

>> Do you have loaded the "amdtemp" kernel module?
>> See "man 4 amdtemp" for details.
>>
>> Also check out xload, mbmon, xmbmon and xcpufreq
>> as a nice and useful X decoration. ;-)
>
> Yes, I have amdtemp loaded AFAIK:
>
> [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:52:14pm] 336 % grep -i amd /boot/loader.conf
> amdtemp_load="YES"
> [root@kabini1, /etc, 10:53:13pm] 337 %

Sure you want it loaded, what if it fails?

kldload | grep amd


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