nvidia support in sensors-applet

[Andrey Vihrov]

Binary package hint: sensors-applet

sensors-applet doesn't detect the Nvidia GPU core temperature sensor. In the same time, if I start the "nvidia-settings" program, the correct temperature appears on one of its tabs.

I have sensors-applet 1.7.10+dfsg-1 and nvidia-glx-new 1.0.9755+2.6.20.5-15.20 installed on Feisty i386. The GPU is Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS, set up on PCI-E.

[fralk (fmonte)]

For NVIDIA graphics cards support:

    * 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)

[Nicolas Nobelis (nobelis)]

The contributor describes his patch to sensor-applet here : http://svpe.blogspot.com/2006/04/adding-support-for-sensors-of-my.html
His code is based on the NVCtrl library, provided by nvidia-settings. Unfortunately, in feisty, there are two ways of getting nvidia-settings :
* nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new : in this case, the nvidia-setting is included but it doesn't provided the library nor the headers.
* nvidia-glx-legacy : in this case, you should also use the nvidia-settings package which provides the library !!! (usr/lib/libXNVCtrl.a).

Why does the nvidia-settings included in the nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new packages doesn't provide this library anymore ? The situation is the same in Debian testing, so this bug (or feature) should have come with the sync, no ?