From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamie Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI vs Asus A8v Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:51:01 +0000 Message-ID: <422A37D5.8080704@travellingkiwi.com> References: <42289943.6030303@travellingkiwi.com> <20050305142245.40c8914a.vsu@altlinux.ru> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: In-Reply-To: <20050305142245.40c8914a.vsu@altlinux.ru> To: Sergey Vlasov Cc: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Sergey Vlasov wrote: >On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:22:11 +0000 Hamie wrote: > > > >>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... >> >> >[skip] > > >>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? >> >> > >You should try to use lm_sensors - there are some success reports >about this board: > >http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg29514.html > >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). > > 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.