GAI-Temp

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gai-temp is an applet that allows you to display the temperature of your harddisk and your cpu.

In order to do this, gai-temp needs access to hddtemp [1] deamon 
(to display the harddisk temperature) and a properly working lm_sensor 
installation. The cpu temperature can also be read from acpi, what most modern 
mainboards should support. Therefore your kernel has to support "ACPI 
thermal zones" (CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL)

hddtemp_daemon:

The hddtemp daemon should be listening on localhost:7634 
Your harddisk must have a temperature sensor and the S.M.A.R.T.  
option must be enabled in the bios setup. 
In order to get more information about this, have a look at [1].

acpi:

The temperature is read from "/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature"
If there is no such file, either your kernel doesn't support this feature (load the corresponding module - thermal ) or your mainboard doesn't support it. 

lm_sensors:

There is only support for kernel 2.6 atm.. If you have an older kernel you
could try to find out if you can read the temperature from the sys filesystem 
(/sys/*) or the proc filesystem (/proc/*) and mail the result to me.

On linux-2.6 the temperature is read from /sys/devices/platform/i2c???.


Every sensor is displayed by default. You can change this by right-clicking the
applet and choosing preferences. If you only see the "common"-tab, no sensors 
where found. The sad-looking face also shows you this ;-)

If you have any problems with - or comments on gai-temp, don't dare to send 
an mail to me (Olaf Leidinger <leidola@web.de>)

[1] http://coredump.free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php
