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27.Dd February 13, 1999
28.Dt ALPM 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm alpm
32.Nd Acer Aladdin 15x3 Power Management controller driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd device smbus
35.Cd device smb
36.Cd device alpm
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38This driver provides access to the
39.Tn Aladdin 15x3 Power Management Unit .
40Currently, only smbus controller
41function is implemented.
42.Pp
43The embedded SMBus controller of the Aladdin chipset may give you access
44to the monitoring facilities of your mainboard.
45See
46.Xr smb 4
47for writing user code to fetch voltages, temperature and so on from the
48monitoring chip of your mainboard.
49.Sh SEE ALSO
50.Xr smb 4 ,
51.Xr smbus 4
52.Sh HISTORY
53The
54.Nm
55manual page first appeared in
56.Fx 4.0 .
57.Sh AUTHORS
58This
59manual page was written by
60.An Nicolas Souchu Aq Mt nsouch@FreeBSD.org .
61.Sh BUGS
62Only polling mode is supported.
63