Temperatures + Fan speeds + Clocks?

[Ancoron Luciferis]

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Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ancoron Luciferis<ancoron at chaoslayer.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I would like to get some sensor-like data for monitoring from my Radeon
>> cards (X1950XTX + HD2400PRO). I saw that the proprietary drivers have
>> something integrated to get the temperature at least.
>>
>> Is there some tool I can use to get that data without using the
>> proprietary driver? My X1950XTX isn't supported either any longer.
> 
> Not at the moment.  The information is available, at least on the
> x1950, however, no one has written the code yet to do it.  The type of
> sensor and i2c information is available in the power mode tables in
> the bios.  There are drivers in the kernel for most of the sensor
> chips used on these cards.  So with the radeon kms code, someone just
> needs to write the code to set up the i2c bus and load the appropriate
> driver.
> 
> Alex
> 

Well, thanx for the info.

And there is no tool or some series of commands to be used to get the
value of the appropriate register (or wherever that info is stored)?

There has to be at least a manual method to get the data.

Ancoron

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