Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

[O. Hartmann]

Mike Jakubik wrote:
> I need to be able to get the cpu and fan information from my 
> motherboard, however none of the monitoring utilities in the ports 
> seems to support my motherboard (Supermicro PDSMi, Intel E7230 
> (Mukilteo) Chipset). On my older VIA based motherboards and some 
> Nvidia, i can get this information using ACPI and the hw.acpi.thermal 
> sysctl. This however is not available on this motherboard. Would this 
> be a shortcoming of the motherboards ACPI implementation, or a lack of 
> support by freebsd?
>
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Similar problem to me here with a ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The older 
versions of this motherboard type like A8N-SLI Deluxe and maybe A8N-SLI 
Premium had thermal zones in ACPI output, but not the A8N32-SLI. No 
temperature, no fanspeed, no thermal zones.