Error with "Coretemp"

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:17:21 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Maxim Galkin wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello, my name is Maxim. Can u help me with my question?
> > I want to know the temperature of the CPU with the values ??of sysctl.
> > The command "sysctl-a | grep tempe" ... any results
> >
> > I rebuilt the kernel with the remark:
> > device coretemp
> >
> > just trying to add a module with kldload.
> >
> >
> > # kldstat
> > May 1 0xc0400000 b65944 kernel
> > February 1 0xc0f66000 22d0 accf_http.ko
> > March 1 0xc0f69000 30d4 coretemp.ko
> >
> > Anyway sysctl s not display temperature.
> >
> > My CPU:
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.4GHz (1400.09-Mhz 686-class CPU)
> 
> From coretemp(4):
> 
>    "The coretemp driver provides support for the on-die digital thermal
>     sensor present in Intel Core and newer CPUs."
> 
> So the Pentium 4 is too old to be supported by that driver. 
> sysutils/mbmon might work.  Some P4 systems might not have accessible 
> temperature monitoring.

I've successfully been monitoring CPU temp with a Intel Pentium 4
processor on FreeBSD 5 and 7, using xmbmon and some kernel configuration
tweaks, such as the inclusion of:

	device smbus
	device iicbus
	device iicsmb
	device iicbb
	device iic

With xmbmon, temperatures could then be queried.



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