Problem reading vitals from Gigabyte H77-DH3H

[Derek Kulinski]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:38:57PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> I've found that on quite a few modern systems the ACPI platform advertises some
> useless thermal zones, which always return some hardcoded temperatures.
> E.g. I have Asus P8Z77-M PRO near me and it also reports two thermal zones.
> Looking at DSDT (acpidump -dt) I see that the temperatures are hardcoded.
> 
> It seems that your motherboard has an ITE Super I/O with hardware monitoring
> function.  I am not sure which model though...
> Your best bet would be it(4) driver, but it is not committed yet.
> If you are into some mild hacking (applying patches, building custom kernel),
> then I can point you to the patches.
> Although I can not give a firm guarantee that the driver supports your HWM chip,
> since I don't know the model.

I'm open to experimenting. It's kind of important to me, because I recently had heating issue (that I hopefully fixed) and I wasn't aware of problems until my system started freezing. I was fooled by those values thinking everything was ok.

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> These tools from ports are very outdated and thus do not support new hardware.

I never used them before since on my old box hw.acpi.thermal worked fine.
Is there anything in ports that you would recommend?

Thanks,
Derek