On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > xmbmon uses the SMBus to read the temperatures but it does it from > userland using direct read and write operations
Oh, I didn't know that. Like I said the box is gone so I can't really verify what I did anymore :( > and when there are timing glitches caused by the process not getting > scheduled quite quick enough you get garbage results.. > teh theory is that the kernel driver wouldn't be susceptible to this > but it looks like unless I resort to polling I will not be able to use > it because it relies on the interrupts and they are not being delivered. :( > ASUS motherboards actually turn off the SMBus. (why?) > So you need to turn it back on before you can read the temperatures.. > I have a little script that uses pciconf to do it.. The machine I tested this on was a Dell GX115 I think, but even when that bit was enabled using pciconf there was no SMBus device/reading possible... Anyway, it seems to be some other problem so I'm off again :) --Stijn -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."
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