CPU Temp Warnings

Matthias Schojohann matthias.schojohann at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 08:38:38 UTC 2015


Hey Justin,
i'm not quite sure what you mean with "can you try with head"?
Like svn head and make buildworld etc.?!
After my disastrous upgrade to 11.0 i don't know if i want to again :D

Cheers, Matt

2015-07-09 5:35 GMT+02:00 Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Matthias Schojohann
> > <matthias.schojohann at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >> i have a FreeBSD10.1-RELEASE on my iBook G4 1,41GHz and every once in a
> >> while i get an error on the terminal that says:
> >> WARNING: Current temperature (CPU BOTTOMSIDE: 255.0 C) exceeds critical
> >> temperature (80.0 C); count = 1
> >>
> >> sysctl dev.adt746x.0.sensors.cpu_bottomside.temp however gives me temps
> >> like 50.0 C so where does my system get the 255 from? Apart from the
> fact
> >> that i don't want to see my CPU on that temperature, it's pretty
> annoying
> >> when i have systat running on that machine.
> >>
> >> Cheers, Matt
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > 255 is (char)-1 on PowerPC, so it indicates an error reading from the
> > device.  I'll take a look at it, and try to silence the error.  Could
> > you file a bug so it doesn't get lost?
> >
> > - Justin
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Can you try with head?  I made some changes back in January correcting
> the type signs for temperature reading, because of that same problem.
> I still see some temperature warnings on my Aluminum PowerBook (127C),
> but I think that's a glitch in the sensor, not necessarily the driver,
> but I'm not certain.  Any time I see all 1's in a reading, I'm
> suspicious of the reading itself, not of the environment, without
> other data.
>
> - Justin
>


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