Enabling acpi_thermal

[Luke Dean]

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 31), Luke Dean said:
>> After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high
>> temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring
>> the temperature of some of my systems.
>>
>> I've got two FreeBSD systems running 5.4.  Both use acpi, and several
>> acpi sysctl variables are present, but the hw.acpi.thermal family is
>> missing.
>
> You'll probably have better luck by installing xmbmon and either
> setting up an exec line in snmpd.conf that runs "mbmon -T1 -c1", or
> writing a little cgi that runs mbmon, and polling that remotely.

Thanks.  That seems to work.  Now I just have to read the manual to make 
sure I understand what it's telling me.  I had assumed that acpi was the 
only way to get to the thermometer, but I see now that it isn't.