Imported Upstream version 0.8.0.4

[psensor-pkg-debian.git] / src / description.txt

diff --git a/src/description.txt b/src/description.txt
index f85c2ca..3dfdd56 100644 (file)
--- a/src/description.txt
+++ b/src/description.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ 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).
+  * 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).
 
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ 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.
+daemon must be running or atasmart used ('\-\-use\-libatasmart').
 
 For remote monitoring:
   * start psensor\-server(1) on the remote computer
@@ -32,7 +33,12 @@ 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 is written to '$HOME/.psensor/log'.
+Log messages are written to '$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]