On 04/02/13 20:55, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message <515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org>, you wrote:
On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
[Overheating CPU war story snipped.]
...
I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends.
Yes.
P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster sized heatsink in this system, and
it sits atop a quite modest 2.7GHz single-core Athlon, so it is not at
all surprising that the ``stable'' CPU temp is around 30c (86f).
I tend to use Intel processors so I'm not familiar with your exact
processor, but does the amdtemp kernel module work for it?
I dunno. This is the first I have ever heard of that.
Is there any specific advantage to using that, relative to using mbmon?
Only that it's in the base system without needing any ports.
If so, you could write a shell script that loops doing
"sysctl -n dev.cpu.<N>.temperature"
Right, but I can do something similar also with mbmon.
..."man speaker"...
Humm... I'm looking at that now and it raises more questions that it answers.
First order question: Why is it that in FreeBSD there are so many man
pages like this one, _purporting_ to describe some low level interface
to some sort of hardware, and the man page _doesn't_ include a clear
and explicit description of the relevant ioctls ?
At least in this case the man page does sort of describe, in just prose,
what the relevant ioctls are, but it doesn't actually show the calls
explicitly. But look at the man pages for usb(4) or uart(4) or tty(4)
or essentially anything you find in /usr/share/man/man4. Maybe I'm just
spoiled or something, but I do seem to remember, back in the old old OLD
days, that device file man pages always explicitly listed the relevant
ioctls. (But then I suppose that that was SystemV I'm thinking of.)
It's worth remembering that in the old**3 days the people programming
Unix were doing it as part of their paid employment. These days I
suspect many people hacking on FBSD have jobs, families and real lives
contending with their open source work. "The job's not done until the
documentation is written" is a great principle, but difficult in
practice for anyone whose FBSD coding is done in snatched time.
Second order question: Why can't I just pipe a .wav file to the
/dev/speaker device file and have it play? Wouldn't that make quite
a lot of sense?
You're thinking of /dev/audio, which is a Sparc sound system workalike
that plays IIRC mu-law sound (not .wav, that's got headers mixed up with
the data). However, you specifically asked for something that would use
the motherboard speaker, whereas /dev/audio sits over the /dev/dsp*
stuff, which drives the normal external speaker audio. (man snd for that.)
Historically the "type the notes" interface to /dev/speaker goes back a
long way. Back in the mid 80s I worked on a Symbolics Lisp Machine that
had the same interface.
/usr/sbin/spkrtest might be useful
Humm... well... it is at least mildly entertaining.
I meant useful to look at for ideas, not use. :-)
I wonder if whoever write and distributed this realized that he/she could
be sued for copyright infringement for about 5 of the simple tunes that are
embedded in that thing. Sad but true.
Have you actually tried it? I'm not sure even the music industry's
paranoid lawyers would worry about something that sounds that bad, and
any half way sane judge would throw it out as "de minimis".
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