Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:37:28 -0600 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apps to display cpu temp Message-ID: <4EBFE438.8060403@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111113030251.ed94d59f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4EBF294D.6060306@gmail.com> <20111113030251.ed94d59f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 11/12/2011 8:02 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:19:57 -0800, Edward Martinez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I have a Pentium 4 and i have been trying to get "coretemp" and >> "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature" to display my Cpu temperture , >> however i have not had any luck using them >> Are there any other apps perhaps from ports that reports CPU temp? > > I've been using the port "xmbmon" for that, in > combination with > > device smbus > device iicbus > device iicsmb > device iicbb > device iic > > in the kernel configuration file - on a Pentium 4 > system. I haven't tried the sysctl method, because > xmbmon did work out of the box. :-) You can also > use mbmon for text output. > > Here's an example from ~/.xinitrc calling xmbmon: > > xmbmon -g 150x100+0+897 \ > -tmin 20.0 -tmax 70.0 \ > -cmtmb CPU -cltmb blue \ > -cmtcpu CS -cltcpu cyan \ > -cmtcs SYS -cltcs green \ > -vmin 2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red& > > Depending on the sensor installation of your > particular system, check if the different values > do match the hardware. Maybe check from within > your CMOS setup for reference values. > > > > For amd, I use dev.cpu.0.temperature. For some reason, it's 15 degrees off compared to the bios and linux. I used benchmarks/stress along with setting specific frequencies to figure out where linux and where freebsd would hit a temperature limit.
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