Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

[Mike Jakubik]

Jiawei Ye wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
>> I don't want to spend $50 extra per system, just so i can read the
>> temperature, and not even use any of the IPMI functions. I need a simple
>> and scriptable way to get the values, acpi sysctls are ideal for this.
> What about using SMBus? Is it available on your system? xmbmon reads
> temperatures off the SMBus IIRC.

I tried that, unfortunately it does not work. All i want to know is if 
this a shortcoming of freebsd or the motherboard, if its the later, i 
will contact the manufacturer.