mbmon (in xmbmon port) on ASUS P4T-533

[Andrea Venturoli]

Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I'm running i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE and I have installed port xmbmon.
> 
> mbmon doesn't detect my hw sensoe, even though it's mentioned in the Readme 
> in /usr/local/share/doc/xmbmon.
> 
> The Readme mentions the P4T-533C, which is amost identical and uses the same 
> hw monitor chip.
> 
> I have tried adding smbus support to my kerenl config, i.e., 
> device      smbus       # Bus support, required for smb below.
> 
> device      intpm
> device      alpm
> device      ichsmb
> device      viapm
> device      amdpm
> 
> device      smb
> 
> and even
> 
> device      iicbus      # Bus support, required for ic/iic/iicsmb below.
> device      iicbb
> 
> device      ic
> device      iic
> device      iicsmb      # smb over i2c bridge
> 
> to no avail.  I even removed /dev/smb0 and /dev/smb1 and then rebuilt xmbmon.
> 
> I didn't see any ref to smb devices in dmesg, before or after removing the 
> devices in /dev.
> 
> Any ideas?

"*Almost*" identical, means different: a different PCI id is just enough.

Your chipset is probably unsupported by FreeBSD, that's why you get no 
detection messages in the logs.
Anyway, mbmon interfaces directly to the HW, so it doesn't need (and 
doesn't take advantage of) any kernel driver. If it doesn't work, then 
again, it also doesn't support your chip.

You might search for a previous thread in which I gave more details, but 
I'll doubt you'll get it to work without modifying the software.

You might also try lmmon and/or healthd (these need the drivers).

  bye
	av.