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Subject: Re: acpi_thermal on nforce 4 board
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Bruno Ducrot wrote:

>then we should be able to get correct values, but the
>chip could hang in the long run.
>  
>
Running mbmon throughout the day I see approximately one such hang a 
day, and it seems to cause temps to spike as well.  I now do this to 
limit the damage:

(ulimit -t 1; /usr/local/bin/mbmon -p winbond -c 1)

>
>BTW I don't see why mbmon failed.  Maybe you should
>try something like that:
>
>mbmon -P winbond
>  
>
Also for some winbond chips healthd can work where mbmon doesn't.

--Alex