Hi
tingo! It seems that, there is several possibilities to check out/monitoring temperature. First off let's look for some applications available in FreeBSD Ports Collection and
sysutils category (more here;
ports/sysutils):
- sysutils/lmmon display various information included motherboard temperature;
- sysutils/mbmon motherboard monitor; interesting sentence "If you have a problem on ASUS Pentium4 motherboard, look into this..." The problem of ASUS Pentium 4 motherboards. Despite that it refers to different model in case of any problems maybe You will find helpful information?;
- sysutils/healthd it is capable of monitoring up to 3 tempuratures, 3 fan speeds and 7 voltages by using the ASUS 99127 hardware monitor chips;
- sysutils/ipmitool in short "IPMI is an open standard for monitoring ... and control of hardware that is implemented independent of the main CPU, BIOS, and OS." ipmitool(1) manpage; To use this, You need an interface/support to an IPMI controller in Your motherboard (called a Baseboard Management Controller, or BMC).
Note that the
mbmon has no maintainer. I believe, that there is many another, interesting applications for this type of tasks. Your post shows that You've tried some
sysctl options. You could try something like this and of course many others
sysctl's options;
# kldload coretemp [color="PaleTurquoise"]..[/color][i][color="DimGray"]# It is a driver for Intel Core and newer CPUs, right? However, You can try.[/color][/i]
# sysctl -a |grep temperature[color="PaleTurquoise"]..[/color][i][color="DimGray"]# Use with `coretemp` module? It's only guessing![b][1][/b][/color][/i]
# sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature [color="PaleTurquoise"]..[/color][i][color="DimGray"]# Refer to `acpi_thermal` driver. [b][2][/b][/color][/i]
According to using the
ipmitool utility You can try this command;
# ipmitool sensor |egrep "[0-9]++ Temp" [color="PaleTurquoise"]..[/color][i][color="DimGray"] # Found on the FreeBSD forums ... and so on.[/color][/i]
[2] acpi_thermal(4) (apparently some systems are able to report temperature with this driver) with many
hw.acpi.thermal values. One more thing; I found a very interesting conversation about CPU temp, see here;
lists.freebsd-amd64 - fan speed/CPU temp.
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[1] Example - Lenovo Thinkpad with FreeBSD 7.2. In this example, I want to show opportunities to check the temperature.
To the
/boot/loader.conf file was added two entries;
Code:
coretemp_load="YES"
acpi_ibm_load="YES"
Next, using two kernel modules:
coretemp and
acpi_ibm (of course loaded by
kldload(8) utility), we can check temp value using
sysctl;
# sysctl -a|grep tempe
Code:
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 51.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz1.temperature: 53.0C
dev.cpu.0.temperature: 53
dev.cpu.1.temperature: 54
NOTE: There is a `
acpi_asus` module which
provides support only for the extra ACPIcontrolled gadgets, such as hotkeys and leds (which follows from the description). So this module seems to not have such functionality as `
acpi_ibm` module. Anyway, You can compare the functionality, capabilities etc. of these two modules -
acpi_ibm(4) and
acpi_asus(4).
That's all what came to my mind or I found on the web. Maybe someone else will write more usable informations? I hope so.
Best regards!
