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+<div id="preamble">\r
+<div class="sectionbody">\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The last version of this FAQ is available at <a href="http://wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/faq.html;hb=HEAD">http://wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/faq.html;hb=HEAD</a>.</p></div>\r
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<div class="sect1">\r
<h2 id="S_NoSensors">1. No sensors or only cpu usage is displayed</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor is relying on few libraries or softwares for retrieving the information about the computer:</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor is relying on few libraries or softwares for retrieving the\r
+information about the computer:</p></div>\r
<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
motherboard and CPUs sensors: the information is retrieved\r
from the lm-sensors library, it requires that\r
- ‘sensors-detect’ has been run and the kernel module\r
- correctly installed. ‘sensors’ can be used for checking.\r
+ <code>sensors-detect</code> has been run and the kernel module\r
+ correctly installed. <code>sensors</code> can be used for checking.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-proprietary driver Nvidia: run ‘nvidia-settings’ to\r
+proprietary driver Nvidia: run <code>nvidia-settings</code> to\r
check that it supports sensors monitoring.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-proprietary driver Catalyst/fglx: use ‘aticonfig’ to\r
+proprietary driver Catalyst/fglx: use <code>aticonfig</code> to\r
check that it supports sensors monitoring. Important\r
note: it requires that you are using a Psensor\r
binary compiled with the ATI support.\r
</li>\r
</ul></div>\r
</li>\r
+</ul></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>For hard disk drives, psensor can use:</p></div>\r
+<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-HDDs: it uses the hddtemp daemon. Verifies that it is\r
- correctly reporting temperature by using the ‘sudo hddtemp\r
- /dev/sd?’ command. If hddtemp does not support your disk,\r
- you may want to try using the libatasmart support instead\r
- (option –use-libatasmart option).\r
+udisks2: added since 1.1.2 release. It is the default and\r
+ recommended provider.\r
+</p>\r
+</li>\r
+<li>\r
+<p>\r
+hddtemp: verify that it is correctly reporting temperature by\r
+ using the command: <code>sudo hddtemp /dev/sda</code>. It is the default\r
+ provider until 1.1.2 release.\r
+</p>\r
+</li>\r
+<li>\r
+<p>\r
+atasmart library: before the 1.1.2 release it can be enabled\r
+ by using the command line option <code>--use-libatasmart</code>.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
</ul></div>\r
report it. Otherwise, the issue is on the underlying software itself\r
and you should contact the corresponding development team or refer to\r
its documentation.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Since the release 1.1.2, the providers can be enabled or disabled directly\r
+from the user interface (<code>Preferences>Provider</code>).</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>Unfortunely, due to the license of this library, I cannot provide a\r
compiled version of Psensor, even in a Ubuntu PPA or Ubuntu/Debian\r
standard repositories. You have to compile Psensor sensor. You can\r
-find the instructions in the section “ATI/AMD GPU Support” of the\r
+find the instructions in the section <code>ATI/AMD GPU Support</code> of the\r
README file available in the Psensor source archives.</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you are using the ATI OpenSource driver, it is not needed to\r
compile Psensor with this proprietary library.</p></div>\r
<p>\r
It is only a bug in Psensor if the underlying libraries\r
report a different information than Psensor (use the\r
- appropriate command or software: ‘sensors’, ‘aticonfig’ or\r
- ‘hddtemp’ to check). In this case, please report a bug.\r
+ appropriate command or software: <code>sensors</code>, <code>aticonfig</code> or\r
+ <code>hddtemp</code> to check). In this case, please report a bug.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
</ul></div>\r
<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘lmsensor coretemp’: Intel CPU.\r
+<code>lmsensor coretemp</code>: Intel CPU.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘lmsensor k10temp’,'lmsensor k8temp’,'lmsensor fam15h_power’: AMD CPU.\r
+<code>lmsensor k10temp</code>, <code>lmsensor k8temp</code>, <code>lmsensor fam15h_power</code>: AMD CPU.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘nvidia’ or ‘lmsensor nouveau’: NVIDIA GPU.\r
+<code>nvidia</code> or <code>lmsensor nouveau</code>: NVIDIA GPU.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘hdd’: hard disk drive.\r
+<code>hdd</code>: hard disk drive.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘amd’: AMD GPU.\r
+<code>amd</code>: AMD GPU.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-‘lmsensor C B’: C is the name of the chip, B the name of the adapter.\r
+<code>lmsensor C B</code>: C is the name of the chip, B the name of the adapter.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
</ul></div>\r
<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-<a href="mailto:psensor-users@googlegroups.com">psensor-users@googlegroups.com</a> (require registration at:\r
- <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users</a>)\r
+<a href="mailto:psensor-users@googlegroups.com">psensor-users@googlegroups.com</a>\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
</li>\r
</ul></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the bug is concerning Debian or Ubuntu derivatives distribution,\r
-please add in its description the output of the command ‘apt-cache\r
-policy psensor’.</p></div>\r
+please add in its description the output of the command: <code>apt-cache\r
+policy psensor</code>.</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>If it is related to the Psensor source compilation, please add the\r
-full output of the ‘configure’ command.</p></div>\r
+full output of the <code>configure</code> command.</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>Check the FAQ or the TODO pages.</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you don’t find the information, you can send an email to the public\r
-mailing-list <a href="mailto:psensor-users@googlegroups.com">psensor-users@googlegroups.com</a> (require registration at:\r
-<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users">https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users</a>)\r
-or send an email directly to me: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p></div>\r
+mailing-list <a href="mailto:psensor-users@googlegroups.com">psensor-users@googlegroups.com</a> or directly to me:\r
+<a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<h2 id="S_UbuntuInstall">8. How to install Psensor on Ubuntu?</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor is in the official repository, search “psensor” in the software center and install it. More information at: <a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration/">http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration/</a>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor is in the official repository, search <code>psensor</code> in the\r
+software center and install it. More information at:\r
+<a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration/">http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration/</a>.</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<h2 id="S_DebianInstall">9. How to install Psensor on Debian?</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
-<div class="paragraph"><p>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: <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html</a>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor is in the official repository since Debian 7.0. You can get\r
+the last packaged version from the sid repository. More information\r
+at: <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html</a>.</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-ppa:jfi/ppa: last stable version.\r
+<code>ppa:jfi/ppa</code>: last stable version.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable: last development version, no major\r
- bug is expected.\r
+<code>ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable</code>: last development version, no\r
+ major bug is expected.\r
</p>\r
</li>\r
<li>\r
<p>\r
-ppa:jfi/psensor-daily-trunk: build each day directly from\r
- the SVN source repository. It may contain major bugs or\r
+<code>ppa:jfi/psensor-daily-trunk</code>: build each day directly from\r
+ the GIT source repository. It may contain major bugs or\r
incomplete features. Useful for contributors or testing\r
whether a bug is fixed.\r
</p>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>Psensor packages are available in the standard repositories of Ubuntu\r
(since Oneiric) and Debian (since v7) distributions.</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>For other distributions, you will find the compilation and\r
-installation instructions in the section ‘Installation from source\r
-archive’ in the README file of the source archive. Psensor should\r
+installation instructions in the section <code>Installation from source\r
+archive</code> in the README file of the source archive. Psensor should\r
compile in any modern distribution.</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<h2 id="S_LOG">13. How to log sensors temperatures?</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>The best way is probably to use sensord or a custom script based on\r
-the output of the different commands like sensors.</p></div>\r
+the output of the different commands like <code>sensors</code>.</p></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>Anyway, as I received several requests about such feature, since the\r
0.7.0.4 release it is implemented in both psensor ( menu preferences >\r
-sensors > enable log of measures) and psensor-server (–sensor-log-file\r
-option).</p></div>\r
+sensors > enable log of measures) and psensor-server\r
+(<code>--sensor-log-file</code> option).</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
<h2 id="S_NO_GRAPH_DISPLAYED">14. No graphs are displayed, but the table of the main window is displaying sensors</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>In the sensors table of the main window, switch on the checkbox of the last\r
-column (named "Enabled" or "Graph" depending on the Psensor version).</p></div>\r
+column (named <code>Enabled</code> or <code>Graph</code> depending on the Psensor version).</p></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
<div class="sect1">\r
-<h2 id="S_SimilarSoft">15. Is there any other similar softwares?</h2>\r
+<h2 id="S_autostart">15. Launch Psensor automaticaly on session startup</h2>\r
<div class="sectionbody">\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Since the version 1.0.1, Psensor is no more started automaticaly by default.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Open the <code>Preferences</code> window, select the <code>Startup</code> tab and switch on\r
+the option <code>Launch on session startup</code>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This feature is requiring that the Desktop Environment supports the\r
+<a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG\r
+specification</a>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph" id="S_disk"><p>How to monitor the temperature of a disk with <code>hddtemp</code>?</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>Until the release 1.1.2, Psensor is using +hddtemp+ by default to\r
+retrieve the temperature of the disks.\r
+\r
+If +hddtemp+ is installed but no disk temperature is reported, check\r
+that the daemon is running by using for example the command +ps\r
+-eaf|grep hddtemp+.\r
+It should output something like:</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>root 1433 1 0 May28 ? 00:00:21 /usr/sbin/hddtemp -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 7634 -s | /dev/sdb</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>Depending on the Linux distribution, the installation of the +hddtemp+\r
+package does not enable the hddtemp daemon automaticaly.\r
+\r
+In this case, edit the file +/etc/default/hddtemp+ and set\r
++RUN_DAEMON+ to +"true"+ like in the following example:</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p># hddtemp network daemon switch. If set to true, hddtemp will listen\r
+# for incoming connections.\r
+RUN_DAEMON="true"</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>For Debian/Ubuntu, you can use</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>and reply +yes+ when asked whether hddtemp daemon must be\r
+run during the startup.\r
+\r
+[[S_SimilarSoft]]\r
+Is there any other similar softwares?</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
<div class="paragraph"><p>Here is a list of few well-known sensors monitoring softwares:</p></div>\r
<div class="ulist"><ul>\r
<li>\r
</ul></div>\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
+<div class="sect1">\r
+<h2 id="S_HideSensor">16. Is it possible to hide sensors in the main window?</h2>\r
+<div class="sectionbody">\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Before v1.1.1, the sensors retrieved from the lm-sensor library can be\r
+ignored directly in the lm-sensor configuration. See the manpage\r
+of sensors.conf(5).</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Since v1.1.1, it is possible to hide a sensor, uncheck the setting\r
+<em>Display sensor in the list of sensors</em> in the sensor preferences.</p></div>\r
+</div>\r
+</div>\r
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-Last updated 2014-04-10 01:57:33 CEST\r
+Last updated 2014-09-20 09:13:33 CEST\r
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