SensorInstallHowto - Community Ubuntu Documentation: "Install the lm-sensors package (see InstallingSoftware).
Run sudo sensors-detect and choose YES to all YES/no questions.
At the end of sensors-detect, a list of modules that needs to be loaded will displayed. Type "yes" to have sensors-detect insert those modules into /etc/modules, or edit /etc/modules yourself.
Next, run sudo service module-init-tools restart This will read the changes you made to /etc/modules in step 3, and insert the new modules into the kernel.
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