On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ancoron Luciferis<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ancoron Luciferis<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 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)?
Not at the moment. Either the driver or a tool would need to implement the algorithm described above to access the data. > > 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 _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
