09-04-2001
OK, first question... why are you so concerned about hardware monitoring? Are you overclocking or something?
Second, if you're only worried about CPU/mb temps, you should be able to get those out of your bios...
And what OS are you running? Many distros of Linux come packaged with hardware monitoring software. You just have to know where to look.
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VIAPM(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual VIAPM(4)
NAME
viapm -- VIA chipsets Power Management controller driver
SYNOPSIS
device iicbb
device iicbus
device iicsmb
device smbus
device smb
device viapm
DESCRIPTION
This driver provides access to the VIA chipset Power Management Unit family. They are VT82C586B, VT82C596A, VT82C596B, VT82C686A and VT8233.
The embedded controller of the VIA chipset may give you access to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
The 586B support is made by software whereas other controllers support the SMBus protocol by hardware. See smb(4) for writing user code to
fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the monitoring chip of your mainboard.
SEE ALSO
iicbb(4), iicbus(4), iicsmb(4), smb(4), smbus(4)
HISTORY
The viapm manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 4.5.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@FreeBSD.org>.
BUGS
Only polling mode is supported.
BSD April 20, 2002 BSD