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| author | Stefano Karapetsas <[email protected]> | 2011-11-21 23:44:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefano Karapetsas <[email protected]> | 2011-11-21 23:44:15 +0100 |
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@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +GNOME Sensors Applet <http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net/> + +Author: Alex Murray <[email protected]> + +GNOME Sensors Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel to display +readings from hardware sensors, including CPU temperature, fan speeds +and voltage readings under Linux. + +Supported interfaces: + + * ACPI thermal zones, via the Linux kernel ACPI modules + * Linux kernel i2c[1] modules (for kernel 2.6). + * lm_sensors[1] and i2c[1] packages (for kernel 2.4) + * libsensors[1] (provided by lm_sensors package) + * Linux kernel i8k[2] module (for Dell Inspiron Laptops). + * Linux kernel ibm-acpi[3] module + * Linux kernel PowerPC modules therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel. + * Linux kernel iMac G5 Windfarm module. + * hddtemp[4] daemon for reading temperatures from S.M.A.R.T. equipped disks. + * Linux kernel Omnibook[5] module. + * NVIDIA graphics cards via libNVCtrl (supplied with nvidia-settings[6]) + * Linux kernel sonypi[7] module (for Sony Vaio laptops) + +Includes a simple, yet highly customizable display and intuitive +user-interface. + +Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain +high or low value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a +given command at given repeated intervals. + +GNOME HIG v2.0 compliant + +libnotify[8] support for alarm conditions + +The icons bundled as part of GNOME Sensors Applet were created by +epicbard[9], and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution +Share-Alike license 3.0[10]. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Requirements + + * GNOME 2.8 desktop environment, with GTK >=2.4.0 and libpanelapplet-2 + * For ACPI support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with ACPI modules loaded (CONFIG_ACPI & + CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL) + * For i2c support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with appropriate i2c modules loaded OR + o Linux kernel 2.4 with lm_sensors and i2c packages installed + o libsensors support is available for either of the above (will + utilise settings in /etc/sensors.conf + * For i8k support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with i8k module enabled ("Support for + Dell laptops" (CONFIG_I8K)) + * For ibm-acpi support: + o Linux kernel >=2.6.10 with ibm-acpi module enabled + (CONFIG_IBM_ACPI) + * For PowerPC support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with the therm_adt746x ("Support for + thermal management on laptops with ADT 746x chipset" + (THERM_ADT746X)) or therm_windtunnel ("Support for thermal + management on Windtunnel G4s" (THERM_WINDTUNNEL)) module + enabled + * For iMac G5 and other G5s support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with the Windfarm ("Support for thermal + management on iMac G5" (WINDFARM_PM81)) module enabled + * For hddtemp support: + o hddtemp running in daemon mode + * For Omnibook support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with the Omnibook module + * For NVIDIA graphics cards support: + o NVIDIA binary driver with libNVCtrl installed (provided + with the nvidia-settings utility) (to enable support GNOME + Sensors Applet needs to be configured with the --with-nvidia + flag) + * For sonypi support: + o Linux kernel 2.6 with sonypi module enabled ("Sony Vaio + Programmable I/O Control Device support" (CONFIG_SONYPI)) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and most standard distro users will need to do a + +./configure --prefix=/usr + +to ensure proper installation within the correct path. + + +To enable support for NVIDIA GPUs GNOME Sensors Applet requires the +standard X11 headers as well as libNVCtrl (supplied by nvidia-settings), +and needs to be compiled with support for NVIDIA GPUs as: + +./configure --with-nvidia + +If your X11 headers are in a non-standard location, these can also be +specified as: + +./configure --with-nvidia --with-x11=PATH_TO_X11_LIBRARIES + +where PATH_TO_X11_LIBRARIES is the path to your X11 libraries +(such as /usr/include/X11), although in most cases this should not +be needed. + + +[1] http://www.lm-sensors.org/ +[2] http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/00-README +[3] http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/ +[4] http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php +[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke +[6] ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/ +[7] http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers +[8] http://www.galago-project.org/ +[9] http://www.uoguelph.ca/~fanguelo/ +[10] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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