apps to display cpu temp

[Joshua Isom]

On 11/12/2011 8:02 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:19:57 -0800, Edward Martinez wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>    I have a Pentium 4 and i  have  been trying to  get  "coretemp" and
>> "sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature" to display  my Cpu temperture ,
>> however i have not had any luck using them
>> Are there any other apps  perhaps from ports that reports CPU temp?
>
> I've been using the port "xmbmon" for that, in
> combination with
>
> 	device smbus
> 	device iicbus
> 	device iicsmb
> 	device iicbb
> 	device iic
>
> in the kernel configuration file - on a Pentium 4
> system. I haven't tried the sysctl method, because
> xmbmon did work out of the box. :-) You can also
> use mbmon for text output.
>
> Here's an example from ~/.xinitrc calling xmbmon:
>
> xmbmon -g 150x100+0+897 \
> 	-tmin 20.0 -tmax 70.0 \
> 	-cmtmb CPU -cltmb blue \
> 	-cmtcpu CS -cltcpu cyan \
> 	-cmtcs SYS -cltcs green \
> 	-vmin 2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red&
>
> Depending on the sensor installation of your
> particular system, check if the different values
> do match the hardware. Maybe check from within
> your CMOS setup for reference values.
>
>
>
>

For amd, I use dev.cpu.0.temperature.  For some reason, it's 15 degrees 
off compared to the bios and linux.  I used benchmarks/stress along with 
setting specific frequencies to figure out where linux and where freebsd 
would hit a temperature limit.