Re: Question about a motherboard

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:10:53 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

# I just got a new motherboard (Asus P2B-DS), it reports various voltages,
# fan speeds, and mboard temperature in the ("hit <del> at") boot-time
# BIOS (APM) setup page, so I know it can measure them.
#
# How does one access these values?
#
# I've grepped the kernel source code for 'lm78' and 'fan'.
# I found only drivers/char/wdt.c --- I don't think it's what I want.

"
The latest version of this package can always be found on our homepage:
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78. Pre-release versions can be retrieved
through anonymous CVS; see doc/cvs for more information.
"

When its installed, it looks like:

nicholas(p3)@neko [119 /<4>cvs-dists/lm_sensors2] > sensors
lm78-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
Algorithm: ISA algorithm
VCore 1: +2.81 V (min = +2.65 V, max = +2.94 V)
VCore 2: +2.81 V (min = +2.65 V, max = +2.94 V)
+3.3V: +3.29 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.45 V)
+5V: +5.04 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V)
+12V: +11.70 V (min = +11.36 V, max = +12.58 V)
-12V: -11.82 V (min = -11.33 V, max = -12.55 V)
-5V: -5.00 V (min = -4.74 V, max = -5.24 V)
fan1: 4299 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan2: 5443 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM
temp: +37 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
vid: +2.80 V
alarms: Board temperature input (usually LM75 chips)
alarms: Chassis intrusion detection

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