X-Git-Url: http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor-pkg-ubuntu.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ffaq.txt;fp=doc%2Ffaq.txt;h=1de2f69e74a62678eae3bd494272469a97f9b907;hp=434472d63598850654c6793b28633e4b255942c0;hb=c271a4d106a1242ff18b6f5aeb3f56280c7eaf2c;hpb=ff4ef48059048e93efa634e36d2ad10973a13de3 diff --git a/doc/faq.txt b/doc/faq.txt index 434472d..1de2f69 100644 --- a/doc/faq.txt +++ b/doc/faq.txt @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ 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 ----------------------------------------- @@ -9,8 +11,8 @@ Psensor is relying on few libraries or softwares for retrieving the information - 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. + +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: @@ -19,19 +21,19 @@ Psensor is relying on few libraries or softwares for retrieving the information monitoring for your GPU, the information is using lm-sensors, same steps than above. - * proprietary driver Nvidia: run ‘nvidia-settings’ to + * proprietary driver Nvidia: run +nvidia-settings+ to check that it supports sensors monitoring. - * proprietary driver Catalyst/fglx: use ‘aticonfig’ to + * 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. - - HDDs: it uses the hddtemp daemon. Verifies that it is - correctly reporting temperature by using the ‘sudo hddtemp - /dev/sd?’ command. If hddtemp does not support your disk, + - HDDs: it uses the hddtemp daemon. Verify that it is + correctly reporting temperature by using the command: +sudo + hddtemp /dev/sda+. If hddtemp does not support your disk, you may want to try using the libatasmart support instead - (option –use-libatasmart option). + (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 @@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ 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 +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 @@ -79,8 +81,8 @@ temperature, etc): - 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. + appropriate command or software: +sensors+, +aticonfig+ or + +hddtemp+ to check). In this case, please report a bug. [[S_WhatIsTheSensor]] What is the sensors XXXX? @@ -93,12 +95,12 @@ 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. + - +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. @@ -124,11 +126,11 @@ email to: - 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’. +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. +full output of the +configure+ command. [[S_SubmitIdea]] How to send ideas, questions or comments? @@ -152,25 +154,29 @@ See http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/how-to-contribute/. 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/. +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 will be 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. +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/ppa+: last stable version. - - ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable: last development version, no major - bug is expected. + - +ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable+: last development version, no + major bug is expected. - - ppa:jfi/psensor-daily-trunk: build each day directly from - the SVN source repository. It may contain major bugs or + - +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. @@ -188,8 +194,8 @@ 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 +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]] @@ -197,12 +203,12 @@ 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. +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). +sensors > enable log of measures) and psensor-server +(+--sensor-log-file+ option). [[S_NO_GRAPH_DISPLAYED]] @@ -210,7 +216,47 @@ 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). +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? +----------------------------------------- + +By default, Psensor is using +hddtemp+ 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 +--------------------- + +Since recent Ubuntu releases, installing the +hddtemp+ package is not +enough, it is required to manually allow the +hddtemp+ daemon. Edit the +file +/etc/default/hddtemp+ and set +RUN_DAEMON+ to +"true"+. + +------------------ +# hddtemp network daemon switch. If set to true, hddtemp will listen +# for incoming connections. +RUN_DAEMON="true" +------------------ + [[S_SimilarSoft]] Is there any other similar softwares?