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.SH NAME
mbmon \- MotherBoard Monitor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mbmon
.RI [ options ]
<seconds for sleep> (default 5 sec)
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the
.B mbmon
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
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Recent motherboards have functionalities to monitor the CPU
temperatures and the frequency of CPU cooling fans etc.  Although
some programs utilizing these hardware monitoring facilities have been
developed for the Microsoft Windows platforms, no programs seem to
exist for PC-UNIX and the X Windows System platforms.
.PP
\fBmbmon\fR used at the command line reports the temperatures,
voltages and rpm (rounds per minute) of cooling fans. It can also be used
.B remotely
via telnet, thanks to the "\-P" option.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-V, \-S, \-I, \-A
Access method (using "VIA686 HWM directly"|"SMBus"|"ISA I/O port"|"All this methods").
.TP
.B \-d
Debug mode (any other options except (V|S|I) will be ignored).
.TP
.B \-e [0-2]
set extra temperature sensor to temp. Need \-A.
.TP
.B \-p chip
For probing chips. chip=winbond|wl784|via686|it87|gl52|lm85|lm80|lm90|lm75
.TP
.B \-Y
For Tyan Tiger MP/MPX motherboard.
.TP
.B \-f
Display temperature in Fahrenheit.
.TP
.B \-c count
Repeat <count> times and exit.
.TP
.B \-P port
Run in daemon mode, using given port for clients.
.TP
.B \-T|F [1-7]
print Temperature|Fanspeed according to following styles:
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        style1: data1
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        style2: data2
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        style3: data3
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        style4: data1 data2
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        style5: data1 data3
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        style6: data2 data3
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        style7: data1 data2 data3
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.TP
.B \-r
Print TAG and Value format.
.TP
.B \-u
Print system uptime.
.TP
.B \-t
Print present time.
.TP
.B \-n, \-N
print hostname (long|short style).
.TP
.B \-i
Print integers in the summary (with \-T option).


.SH EXAMPLES
mbmon \-P 11000; telnet localhost 11000; sudo killall mbmon
.br
mbmon \-c1
.br
mbmon 1 (yeah, real time baby !)

.SH SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/mbmon/*

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Nicolas Rueff <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).