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Xeon 5620 lm-sensors, problems with coretemp

I post this here because of lack of a better place to get it visible to search engines.

If you are trying to get lm-sensors to work on Debian with a E5620 Xeon or two, you will probably get an error about no sensors found (even after going trough sensors-detect). If you try to manually load the modules required, you will see that an error pops up when trying to load the coretemp module. Something about "devide not found".

The solution is simple, you must install kernel 2.6.37-2-amd64. This cannot be done if you are running either stable or testing. You must use the unstable repositories (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html for a how-to) and from there install with apt-get install -t unstable linux-image-2.6-37-2-amd64

This new kernel has a new version of the coretemp module which is capable of dealing with these (not-so-)new intel models.

This might also be necessary for the newer high-end i7 as well as other 5600 series Xeon cpus.

Regards.