On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:31:56PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:52:53PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >>David Duchscher wrote: > >>>On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > >>>>Does this one support IPMI? > >>>Yes, the Supermicro PDSMi supports the IPMI 2.0 module and I can > >>>confirm that it works with the IPMI ported driver from current on > >>>6.1. The module is optional so you will have to purchase one for > >>>the system, around 0. You will also need the latest BIOS loaded on > >>>the motherboard for it to work. > >>> > >>>http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-IPMI20-E.cfm > >>I don't want to spend $50 extra per system, just so i can read the > >>temperature, and not even use any of the IPMI functions. I need a simple > >>and scriptable way to get the values, acpi sysctls are ideal for this. > > > >Have you tried ports/sysutils/mbmon? > > > >It can try to get the values in different ways, e.g. accessing the chip > >directly, smbus or isa. It is easily scriptable. I use it in combination > >with gnuplot in a shell-script to make a graph of the CPU and > >motherboard temperatures; > >http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#monitor > > > >Roland > > I did and it only worked for my on an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. ASUS > A8N32-SLI Deluxe evidently uses another IO chip (or e newer revision) > and on my lab's i386 ASUS P800 system I have the same problem, neither > ACPI, smbus nor anything else seems to work or obtain temperature/fan speed. > > It's funny, on those boxes xmbmon/mbmon worked fine I also saw ACPI > thermal zones and fan speed (expecially my older ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe).
My ASUS K8V DeLuxe doesn't work with ACPI; there is no hw.acpi.thermal sysctl. The only thing that seems to work is mbmon via the ISA interface. Trying SMBus gives nonsense values. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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