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-Psensor Frequently Asked Questions
-==================================
-
-The last version of this FAQ is available at http://wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/faq.html;hb=HEAD.
-
-[[S_NoSensors]]
-No sensors or only cpu usage is displayed
------------------------------------------
-
-Psensor is relying on few libraries or softwares for retrieving the
-information about the computer:
-
- - motherboard and CPUs sensors: the information is retrieved
- from the lm-sensors library, it requires that
- +sensors-detect+ has been run and the kernel module
- correctly installed. +sensors+ can be used for checking.
-
- - GPUs: it depends on which driver you are using:
-
- * Opensource drivers (nouveau for Nvidia GPUs or
- radeon/ati for ATI GPUs) is used and support sensor
- monitoring for your GPU, the information is using
- lm-sensors, same steps than above.
-
- * proprietary driver Nvidia: run +nvidia-settings+ to
- check that it supports sensors monitoring.
-
- * proprietary driver Catalyst/fglx: use +aticonfig+ to
- check that it supports sensors monitoring. Important
- note: it requires that you are using a Psensor
- binary compiled with the ATI support.
-
-For hard disk drives, psensor can use:
-
- - udisks2: added since 1.1.2 release. It is the default and
- recommended provider.
-
- - hddtemp: verify that it is correctly reporting temperature by
- using the command: +sudo hddtemp /dev/sda+. It is the default
- provider until 1.1.2 release.
-
- - atasmart library: before the 1.1.2 release it can be enabled
- by using the command line option +--use-libatasmart+.
-
-If the underlying software is reporting sensors which are not
-displayed by Psensor, it is probably a bug in Psensor, so please
-report it. Otherwise, the issue is on the underlying software itself
-and you should contact the corresponding development team or refer to
-its documentation.
-
-Since the release 1.1.2, the providers can be enabled or disabled directly
-from the user interface (+Preferences>Provider+).
-
-[[S_ATIMonitoring]]
-How to monitor an ATI card using the Catalyst driver?
------------------------------------------------------
-
-For monitoring ATI card using the proprietary Catalyst driver, Psensor
-must be compiled with a proprietary library which is not packaged in
-any Linux distribution.
-
-Unfortunely, due to the license of this library, I cannot provide a
-compiled version of Psensor, even in a Ubuntu PPA or Ubuntu/Debian
-standard repositories. You have to compile Psensor sensor. You can
-find the instructions in the section +ATI/AMD GPU Support+ of the
-README file available in the Psensor source archives.
-
-If you are using the ATI OpenSource driver, it is not needed to
-compile Psensor with this proprietary library.
-
-[[S_WrongTemperature]]
-The reported temperature is obviously wrong
--------------------------------------------
-
-If the reported temperature is obviously wrong (never change, lower
-than the ambiant temperature, negative, higher than the sun
-temperature, etc):
-
- - most of the time it is not a bug in Psensor nor in the
- underlying monitoring libraries:
-
- * if the temperature does not change, it might be due
- to an existent sensor not wired by the hardware
- manufacturer.
-
- * the goal of the sensor is to allow the system to
- detect critical temperature and NOT to report an
- exact temperature. Most sensors report a relative
- temperature. The more it differs from the critical
- temperature , the more it is wrong.
-
- - It is only a bug in Psensor if the underlying libraries
- report a different information than Psensor (use the
- appropriate command or software: +sensors+, +aticonfig+ or
- +hddtemp+ to check). In this case, please report a bug.
-
-[[S_WhatIsTheSensor]]
-What is the sensors XXXX?
--------------------------
-
-Since Psensor v0.7.0.4, open the preferences of the sensor (click on
-its name in the main window and select the menu item Preferences), and
-look at the Chip field.
-
-For older Psensor releases, look at the Id field, if the string is
-starting with:
-
- - +lmsensor coretemp+: Intel CPU.
- - +lmsensor k10temp+, +lmsensor k8temp+, +lmsensor fam15h_power+: AMD CPU.
- - +nvidia+ or +lmsensor nouveau+: NVIDIA GPU.
- - +hdd+: hard disk drive.
- - +amd+: AMD GPU.
- - +lmsensor C B+: C is the name of the chip, B the name of the adapter.
-
-For more information about lmsensor devices, see
-http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices.
-
-[[S_BugReport]]
-How to report a bug?
---------------------
-
-Please use https://bugs.launchpad.net/psensor/+filebug to report bugs
-even if it can only reproduced with a non-Ubuntu distribution or a
-release not available in the standard Ubuntu repositories.
-
-You can also use
-https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/psensor/+filebug if the bug
-can be reproduced with a package from the standard Ubuntu
-repositories.
-
-If you don’t want to use the launchpad, you can send the report by
-email to:
-
- - psensor-users@googlegroups.com
- - or jeanfi@gmail.com.
-
-If the bug is concerning Debian or Ubuntu derivatives distribution,
-please add in its description the output of the command: +apt-cache
-policy psensor+.
-
-If it is related to the Psensor source compilation, please add the
-full output of the +configure+ command.
-
-[[S_SubmitIdea]]
-How to send ideas, questions or comments?
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-
-Check the FAQ or the TODO pages.
-
-If you don’t find the information, you can send an email to the public
-mailing-list psensor-users@googlegroups.com or directly to me:
-jeanfi@gmail.com.
-
-
-[[S_Contribute]]
-How to contribute?
-------------------
-
-See http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/how-to-contribute/.
-
-[[S_UbuntuInstall]]
-How to install Psensor on Ubuntu?
----------------------------------
-
-Psensor is in the official repository, search +psensor+ in the
-software center and install it. More information at:
-http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration/.
-
-[[S_DebianInstall]]
-How to install Psensor on Debian?
----------------------------------
-
-Psensor is in the official repository since Debian 7.0. You can get
-the last packaged version from the sid repository. More information
-at: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html.
-
-[[S_PPA]]
-What is the difference between the 3 Ubuntu PPAs?
--------------------------------------------------
-
- - +ppa:jfi/ppa+: last stable version.
-
- - +ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable+: last development version, no
- major bug is expected.
-
- - +ppa:jfi/psensor-daily-trunk+: build each day directly from
- the GIT source repository. It may contain major bugs or
- incomplete features. Useful for contributors or testing
- whether a bug is fixed.
-
-[[S_ArchLinuxInstall]]
-How to install Psensor on ArchLinux?
-------------------------------------
-
-See http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37807.
-
-[[S_OtherInstall]]
-How to install Psensor on my Linux distribution?
-------------------------------------------------
-
-Psensor packages are available in the standard repositories of Ubuntu
-(since Oneiric) and Debian (since v7) distributions.
-
-For other distributions, you will find the compilation and
-installation instructions in the section +Installation from source
-archive+ in the README file of the source archive. Psensor should
-compile in any modern distribution.
-
-[[S_LOG]]
-How to log sensors temperatures?
---------------------------------
-
-The best way is probably to use sensord or a custom script based on
-the output of the different commands like +sensors+.
-
-Anyway, as I received several requests about such feature, since the
-0.7.0.4 release it is implemented in both psensor ( menu preferences >
-sensors > enable log of measures) and psensor-server
-(+--sensor-log-file+ option).
-
-[[S_NO_GRAPH_DISPLAYED]]
-
-No graphs are displayed, but the table of the main window is displaying sensors
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-In the sensors table of the main window, switch on the checkbox of the last
-column (named +Enabled+ or +Graph+ depending on the Psensor version).
-
-[[S_autostart]]
-Launch Psensor automaticaly on session startup
-----------------------------------------------
-
-Since the version 1.0.1, Psensor is no more started automaticaly by default.
-
-Open the +Preferences+ window, select the +Startup+ tab and switch on
-the option +Launch on session startup+.
-
-This feature is requiring that the Desktop Environment supports the
-http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html[XDG
-specification].
-
-[[S_disk]]
-How to monitor the temperature of a disk with +hddtemp+?
------------------------------------------
-
-Until the release 1.1.2, Psensor is using +hddtemp+ by default to
-retrieve the temperature of the disks.
-
-If +hddtemp+ is installed but no disk temperature is reported, check
-that the daemon is running by using for example the command +ps
--eaf|grep hddtemp+.
-It should output something like:
-
----------------------
-root 1433 1 0 May28 ? 00:00:21 /usr/sbin/hddtemp -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 7634 -s | /dev/sdb
----------------------
-
-Depending on the Linux distribution, the installation of the +hddtemp+
-package does not enable the hddtemp daemon automaticaly.
-
-In this case, edit the file +/etc/default/hddtemp+ and set
-+RUN_DAEMON+ to +"true"+ like in the following example:
-
-------------------
-# hddtemp network daemon switch. If set to true, hddtemp will listen
-# for incoming connections.
-RUN_DAEMON="true"
-------------------
-
-For Debian/Ubuntu, you can use
-------------------
-dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp
-------------------
-
-and reply +yes+ when asked whether hddtemp daemon must be
-run during the startup.
-
-[[S_SimilarSoft]]
-Is there any other similar softwares?
--------------------------------------
-
-Here is a list of few well-known sensors monitoring softwares:
-
- - for X11: http://freecode.com/projects/xsensors
-
- - for GNOME2: http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net/
-
- - for Ubuntu Unity: https://launchpad.net/indicator-sensors
-
- - more general, but can be configured to display sensors
- information: http://conky.sourceforge.net/
-
-[[S_HideSensor]]
-Is it possible to hide sensors in the main window?
---------------------------------------------------
-
-Before v1.1.1, the sensors retrieved from the lm-sensor library can be
-ignored directly in the lm-sensor configuration. See the manpage
-of sensors.conf(5).
-
-Since v1.1.1, it is possible to hide a sensor, uncheck the setting
-'Display sensor in the list of sensors' in the sensor preferences.
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