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.Dd February 13, 1999
.Dt ALPM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm alpm
.Nd Acer Aladdin 15x3 Power Management controller driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd device smbus
.Cd device smb
.Cd device alpm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver provides access to the
.Tn Aladdin 15x3 Power Management Unit .
Currently, only smbus controller
function is implemented.
.Pp
The embedded SMBus controller of the Aladdin chipset may give you access
to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
See
.Xr smb 4
for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
monitoring chip of your mainboard.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr smb 4 ,
.Xr smbus 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page first appeared in
.Fx 4.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This
manual page was written by
.An Nicolas Souchu Aq Mt nsouch@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
Only polling mode is supported.