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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? ------------------------------------------ - -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.