Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI vs Asus A8v

[Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com>]

Sergey Vlasov wrote:

>On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:22:11 +0000 Hamie wrote:
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>>I have an athlon64 in an Asus A8V motherboard, running gentoo with 
>>kernel 2.6.11 (Also tried with 2.6.9 and 2.6.10). Although it works, and 
>>cool&quiet kicks in before boot, I can get no thermal or fan information 
>>from acpi...
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>>What sort of info & control SHOULD I be able to see out of this 
>>motherboard? How can I get the level of control that Asus offer with 
>>their windoze applications?
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>You should try to use lm_sensors - there are some success reports
>about this board:
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>http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg29514.html
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>In fact, most desktop machines do not support access to thermal or fan
>information via ACPI (because the code for this is not present in
>DSDT); and even if it is supported, the capabilities compared to
>lm_sensors are reduced (e.g., most hardware monitoring chips support
>voltage monitoring, which is not available through ACPI interfaces).
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Thanks for that. I guess I've been spoilt by using laptops mostly.

lm_sensors finds the readings fine... Now all I have to do is work out 
which is which :)

Hamish.