retitle 296484 gkrellm: add a note to README.Debian about using hddtemp daemon feature severity 296484 wishlist thanks
Adjusting bug title and severity. * Frédéric Bothamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-30 11:58] : > * Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-29 22:26] : > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Bothamy wrote: > > > According to bug #262709 and #273273, gkrellm should replace > > > gkrellm-hddtemp and > > > use hddtemp directly to display HDD temperature. However this does not > > > work on my > > > computer (i.e. I can't find in gkrellm where hddtemp would be displayed > > > (somewhere near Builtins/Sensors, I guess)) even though hddtemp does work: > > > > > > $ hddtemp /dev/hda > > > /dev/hda: MAXTOR 6L020J1: 45?C > > > > > > I have tried with and without gkrellmd. I have not tried setting hddtemp > > > to daemon > > > mode. For information: > > > > > > $ dpkg -l hddtemp | grep ^ii > > > ii hddtemp 0.3-beta12-12 Utility to monitor the temperature of > > > your h > > > > > > I do not have any i2c sensor available. > > Looking at the source, it looks like gkrellm needs the hddtemp daemon to > > be running on 7634. My disk doesn't support hddtemp so I can't really > > test this. Can you try turning on the daemon and see if that works? > > Hello Brian, > > Thanks for you answer. Indeed, you were right: after activating the > hddtemp daemon, gkrellm now correctly displays the HDD temperature. I > suggest then that you add a small note in the file README.Debian warning > the user about this, something like this: > > Using hddtemp with gkrellm > -------------------------- > To use hddtemp functionality with Gkrellm, you need to activate hddtemp > daemon feature listening on port 7634. You can do this with > 'dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp'. > > > BTW there is a small bug in hddtemp debconf templates: it still > references gkrellm-hddtemp while it should be gkrellm itself. I will > file a minor bug for this. > > Thanks again! > > > Fred
