A simple way to get your sensors working in Debian sid

Note:

First of all you need lm-sensors, if you haven’t got it crack open a terminal and just do this:

su

Password:

apt-get install lm-sensors

Now you need to detect your sensors, do this:

sensors-detect

Answer yes to every one of the questions. Now your set! Just reboot and your sensors should be up and running.But if you don’t want to reboot you can just modprobe the modules(sensors) listed at the very end of sensors-detect, like this:

modprobe it87

Now lets see if it all works, do this:

sensors

This should give you an output like this:

it8712-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1: +1.38 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
VCore 2: +2.67 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+3.3V: +3.31 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+5V: +4.27 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
+12V: +12.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)
-12V: -11.77 V (min = -27.36 V, max = +3.93 V)
-5V: -4.84 V (min = -13.64 V, max = +4.03 V)
Stdby: +3.74 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
VBat: +4.08 V
fan1: 4017 RPM
fan2: 0 RPM
fan3: 0 RPM
M/B Temp: +25 C (low = +127 C, high = +127 C) sensor = thermistor
CPU Temp: +42 C (low = +127 C, high = +60 C) sensor = thermistor

Good luck!