support of SMBus on ICH3

[Joakim Fogelberg]

Igor Pokrovsky writes:
 > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:59:59PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
 > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
 > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:54:09PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
 > > > > I suspect Don is right, and the motherboard disables the SMBus controller
 > > > > becase there are no slave devices wired to it. Dell (the brand of my
 > > > > laptop) uses ACPI and a proprietary method to determine thermal values,
 > > > > so they must have disabled SMBus to avoid implementing yet another
 > > > > way to read those.
 > > >
 > > > How did you know that? In fact I need SMBus only for the reason to
 > > > run sysutils/wmhm. It is very important for me when it is about
 > > > +40C around here. And laptop just turns off automatically without
 > > > any warning. And want to monitor processor temperature in order not
 > > > to loose my work.
 > > 
 > > I 'ported' the Linux Dell SMM driver:
 > > 
 > > http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/
 > > 
 > > It exports some sysctl's exposing the fan status and the CPU temperature.
 > > Note the quotes -- it's still pretty experimental, and covered under the
 > > GPL instead of BSDL.
 > > 
 > > The rest of the temperature readings are in hw.acpi.tz IIRC, but my
 > > laptop is not turned on right now.
 > 
 > Is it Dell specific? My laptop is ASUS L3S.

Have you tried xmbmon in the ports collection ?  It is the only one
that worked for me on ASUS hardware.

 > -ip
 > 
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