Subject: Re: how to get lm sensor data?
To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/08/2002 12:25:03
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:19:26AM -0800, paul beard wrote:

 > I'd like to know if and how I can get lm sensor data from some 
 > machines here: one is actually running freeBSD and it's an older 
 > Gateway with a 440 LX motherboard, as far as I can recall (dmesg 
 > was long ago overwritten after 60 days of uptime). can you get 
 > dmesg-type info w/o rebooting?

440LX's have the sensor chip hanging off of i2c.

There should be some new i2c code landing in -current pretty soon,
and we should be able to talk to the sensor pretty easily when it does.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>