Temperatures + Fan speeds + Clocks?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ancoron Luciferis<ancoron at chaoslayer.de> wrote:
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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.
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>> 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
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> 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)?

Not at the moment.  Either the driver or a tool would need to
implement the algorithm described above to access the data.

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

You need to implement the algorithm I described above to access the data.

Alex