Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:47:57 +0200 From: Joakim Fogelberg <jofog@comhem.se> To: Igor Pokrovsky <igor.pokrovsky@cnrm.meteo.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support of SMBus on ICH3 Message-ID: <16187.12445.44180.272529@bumble.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20030813074215.GB331@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370274224D@mail.sandvine.com> <20030812134634.GA3783@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <20030812140550.GZ59732@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030812141318.GA59732@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030812144000.GA4013@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <20030812145409.GC59732@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030812145918.GA4255@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> <20030812155959.GD59732@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030813074215.GB331@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr>
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Igor Pokrovsky writes: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:59:59PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Igor Pokrovsky wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:54:09PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > > I suspect Don is right, and the motherboard disables the SMBus controller > > > > becase there are no slave devices wired to it. Dell (the brand of my > > > > laptop) uses ACPI and a proprietary method to determine thermal values, > > > > so they must have disabled SMBus to avoid implementing yet another > > > > way to read those. > > > > > > How did you know that? In fact I need SMBus only for the reason to > > > run sysutils/wmhm. It is very important for me when it is about > > > +40C around here. And laptop just turns off automatically without > > > any warning. And want to monitor processor temperature in order not > > > to loose my work. > > > > I 'ported' the Linux Dell SMM driver: > > > > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/ > > > > It exports some sysctl's exposing the fan status and the CPU temperature. > > Note the quotes -- it's still pretty experimental, and covered under the > > GPL instead of BSDL. > > > > The rest of the temperature readings are in hw.acpi.tz IIRC, but my > > laptop is not turned on right now. > > Is it Dell specific? My laptop is ASUS L3S. Have you tried xmbmon in the ports collection ? It is the only one that worked for me on ASUS hardware. > -ip > > -- > I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can > understand it. > -- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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