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2.3 KiB
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73 lines
2.3 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Nicolas Souchu
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 20, 2002
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.Dt VIAPM 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm viapm
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.Nd VIA chipsets Power Management controller driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd device iicbb
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.Cd device iicbus
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.Cd device iicsmb
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.Cd device smbus
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.Cd device smb
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.Cd device viapm
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This driver provides access to the
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.Tn "VIA chipset Power Management Unit"
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family.
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They are
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VT82C586B, VT82C596A, VT82C596B, VT82C686A and VT8233.
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.Pp
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The embedded controller of the VIA chipset may give you access
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to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
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.Pp
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The 586B support is made by software whereas other controllers support
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the SMBus protocol by hardware.
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See
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.Xr smb 4
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for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
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monitoring chip of your mainboard.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr iicbb 4 ,
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.Xr iicbus 4 ,
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.Xr iicsmb 4 ,
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.Xr smb 4 ,
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.Xr smbus 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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manual page first appeared in
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.Fx 4.5 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This
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manual page was written by
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.An Nicolas Souchu Aq nsouch@FreeBSD.org .
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.Sh BUGS
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Only polling mode is supported.
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