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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:48:50 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, stable@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>, David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu>
Subject:   Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)
Message-ID:  <200607280948.51239.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <44C85C4F.7030902@rogers.com>
References:  <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <c21e92e20607261917q51cbd5f4r32f4b8ee3a5469eb@mail.gmail.com> <44C85C4F.7030902@rogers.com>

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On Thursday 27 July 2006 02:25, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Jiawei Ye wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I tried that, unfortunately it does not work. All i want to know is if 
> this a shortcoming of freebsd or the motherboard, if its the later, i 
> will contact the manufacturer.

If ACPI doesn't include the sysctl's that's due to your BIOS, not FreeBSD.
You can verify by doing an acpidump and seeing if you have any thermal
zones listed in your ASL.

-- 
John Baldwin



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