support of SMBus on ICH3

[Igor Pokrovsky]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Joakim Fogelberg wrote:
> 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.

Tried right now. It writes me every time that executable must be run
suid root. But the problem is that executable IS suid root (4555).
Did you experience such problem?

-ip

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