kern/104625: ACPI on ASUS A8N-32 SLI/ASUS P4P800 does not show thermal zones or fan speed

O. Hartmann ohartman at mail.uni-mainz.de
Mon Oct 23 18:33:21 UTC 2006


Nate Lawson wrote:
> O. Hartmann wrote:
>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>> The following reply was made to PR kern/104625; it has been noted by
>>> GNATS.
>>>
>>> From: John Baldwin <john at baldwin.cx>
>>> To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
>>> Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/104625: ACPI on ASUS A8N-32 SLI/ASUS P4P800
>>> does not show thermal zones or fan speed
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:25:09 -0400
>>>
>>>  You need to provide an acpidump.  ACPI thermal zones work fine on
>>> computers  that list them in their BIOS.  Many older machines only
>>> provide access to the  thermals via non-ACPI methods such as over
>>> SMBus, etc.
>>>   
>>
>> Attached to this mail you'll find the acpidump of both boxes.
>> Please note: ASUS A8N32-SLI IS DEFINITELLY NOT OLD as it has been
>> introduces last year and since then the problem persists. And, even
>> worse, OpenBSD seems to show up thermal zones.
>> As I wrote the 'older' ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe already showed up thermal
>> zones, but had a AWARD BIOS while the boxes in question use AMI BIOS. On
>> all boxes I have access to with AMI BIOS, I can not access thermal zones
>> in FreeBSD 6.X ...
>
> No ThermalZone objects present in either of your acpidump tables.  Can
> you show a dmesg from Openbsd that shows what driver is detecting
> those thermal zones?
>
That will take a while due to I have no access to a OpenBSD box with
that hardware (all FreeBSD again), but yes, I'll show that as soon as
possible, when having access to the OpenBSD CDs.

Regards,
Oliver


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