<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
</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
+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
-HDDs: it uses the hddtemp daemon. Verify that it is\r
- correctly reporting temperature by using the command: <code>sudo\r
- hddtemp /dev/sda</code>. If hddtemp does not support your disk,\r
- you may want to try using the libatasmart support instead\r
- (option <code>--use-libatasmart</code>).\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="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
<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="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>\r
-</div>\r
-<div class="sect1">\r
-<h2 id="S_disk">16. How to monitor the temperature of a disk?</h2>\r
-<div class="sectionbody">\r
-<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Psensor is using <code>hddtemp</code> to retrieve the temperature of\r
-the disks.</p></div>\r
-<div class="paragraph"><p>If <code>hddtemp</code> is installed but no disk temperature is reported, check\r
-that the daemon is running by using for example the command <code>ps\r
--eaf|grep hddtemp</code>.\r
-It should output something like:</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>root 1433 1 0 May28 ? 00:00:21 /usr/sbin/hddtemp -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 7634 -s | /dev/sdb</code></pre>\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>Since recent Ubuntu releases, installing the <code>hddtemp</code> package is not\r
-enough, it is required to manually allow the <code>hddtemp</code> daemon. Edit the\r
-file <code>/etc/default/hddtemp</code> and set <code>RUN_DAEMON</code> to <code>"true"</code>.</p></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># hddtemp network daemon switch. If set to true, hddtemp will listen\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"</code></pre>\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>\r
-</div>\r
-<div class="sect1">\r
-<h2 id="S_SimilarSoft">17. Is there any other similar softwares?</h2>\r
-<div class="sectionbody">\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
</div>\r
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>\r
<div id="footer">\r
<div id="footer-text">\r
-Last updated 2014-08-04 09:16:55 CEST\r
+Last updated 2014-09-20 09:13:33 CEST\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
</body>\r
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