X-Git-Url: https://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=psensor-pkg-ubuntu.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fdescription.txt;fp=src%2Fdescription.txt;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=3dfdd56b7b025828895a000001a3e68b91047636;hb=4c50d430bea4b8462b0ae7ab70baf3f538f87718;hpb=0470c31b8a4293914a6fd9b089503775706da084 diff --git a/src/description.txt b/src/description.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3dfdd56..0000000 --- a/src/description.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[description] - -/psensor is a/ - -It displays a curve for each sensor, and uses Desktop Notification to -raise an alarm when a temperature is too high. On Ubuntu an -Application Indicator is also available, its icon changes when a -temperature alert is raised. - -It can monitor: - * the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm\-sensors). - * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl). - * the temperature and fan rotation speed of the ATI GPUs. - * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or atasmart - library). - * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm\-sensors). - * the sensors of a remote computer (using psensor\-server). - -Psensor requires lm\-sensors to be correctly installed and configured, -it can be checked by running the command 'sensors'. If it has never be -done, you may need to run the command 'sensors\-detect' and follow the -instruction. See the manpages of sensors(1) and sensors\-detect(8) for -more information. - -To retrieve the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives, the hddtemp -daemon must be running or atasmart used ('\-\-use\-libatasmart'). - -For remote monitoring: - * start psensor\-server(1) on the remote computer - * run psensor with '\-\-url' option: 'psensor \-\-url=http://localhost:3131' - -ATI/AMD GPUs monitoring is available if the library libatiadlxx is -present in the directory /usr/lib and psensor has been compiled with -the ATI ADL SDK. - -Log messages are written to '$HOME/.psensor/log'. - -By default, if a Psensor process is already running, the command -psensor will show the graph window then exit. -It is possible to run multiple instances of Psensor by using the -option '\-\-new\-instance'. - -[SEE ALSO] - -psensor\-server(1), sensors(1), sensors\-detect(8), hddtemp(8)