Re: howto debug acpi_thermal on Dell 2500 servers

Thanks for the info.  I did try mbmon,   not the x version, but the
command line version.  It hung.  I have hunted for thermal details for
2500 servers on dell's web site but can not find anything that seems
to relate!  I was hoping that acpi was the answer.  Seems like the
it's a secret :( , I am not an expert in this area.  The acpi stuff
looks really cool.  Very easy to use in any program (I use nagios for
monitoring (see ports)).

If anyone knows a detail I don't about this I don't want to flood
current unless it's relevant (I think acpi is relevant to curent, but
general temp stuff would not be).  I will entertain any other ideas in
private messages, so please feel free to e-mail me privately.

Thanks!  Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sten" <sten_at_blinkenlights.nl>
To: "Ken Menzel" <kenm_at_icarz.com>
Cc: <current_at_freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: howto debug acpi_thermal on Dell 2500 servers


> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ken Menzel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >    I am trying to figure out how to use ACPI to get thermal info
on
> > Dell 2500 servers.  I have compiled acpi into the kernel  (see
below
> > for problems with acpi as module with ACPI_DEBUG in make.conf).  I
> > can't seem to get any addtional info from acpi.   Do I need a
debug
> > kernel?  Do I have to have more options in my kernel config?  Is
> > someone already doing (done?) this and I shouldn't bother to try
and
> > debug it?
>
> I do know that on the dell 1550, temperature monitoring is done
> with an lm80, which didn't seem to want to play with smbus.
> (x)mbmon which opens /dev/io directly is able to get temperature
> readings. Might be worth a try.
>
> -- 
> Sten Spans
>
> There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in.
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