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25.Dd February 13, 1999
26.Dt ALPM 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm alpm
30.Nd Acer Aladdin 15x3 Power Management controller driver
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Cd device smbus
33.Cd device smb
34.Cd device alpm
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36This driver provides access to the
37.Tn Aladdin 15x3 Power Management Unit .
38Currently, only smbus controller
39function is implemented.
40.Pp
41The embedded SMBus controller of the Aladdin chipset may give you access
42to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
43See
44.Xr smb 4
45for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
46monitoring chip of your mainboard.
47.Sh SEE ALSO
48.Xr smb 4 ,
49.Xr smbus 4
50.Sh HISTORY
51The
52.Nm
53manual page first appeared in
54.Fx 4.0 .
55.Sh AUTHORS
56This
57manual page was written by
58.An Nicolas Souchu Aq Mt nsouch@FreeBSD.org .
59.Sh BUGS
60Only polling mode is supported.
61