On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:42 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: sensors-applet > Severity: minor > > Hi. > > There are two things about the sensors-applet with nvidia GPU > temperature support. > > 1) I understand you motivation not to include nvidia support per default > to avoid moving the package to contrib. But as there are so many users > with nvidia GPUs out there it would perhaps be a nice solution, to > provide a 2nd package e.g. sensors-applet-with-nv or something better ;) > in contrib. > That way each user could choose the one he likes.
I've thought about it, but I believe Debian's policy would require that it be an entirely separate source package... which is double the maintenence burden, and I don't know > > 2) Following your documentation in /usr/share/doc it's not possible to > create the package with nv support. > The problem are two missing headerfiless (NVCtrl/NVCtrl.h and > NVCtrl/NVCtrlLib.h). > These are should be part of nvidia-settings package, but there is only > the lib included and not the header files. > One has to download the source package and copy the files manually. > > The best solution would be to ask the maintainer of nvidia-settings to > put the whole NVCtrl stuff in a separate -dev package. > > 3) There should be somewhere a hint, that hddtemp support in > sensors-applet requires hddtemp to be run in daemon mode. > And perhaps your package should recommend hddtemp. > > Thanks and best wishes, > Chris. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > -- Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
