Hi Dean,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:10:51 -0800, Dean Loros wrote:
  

Thank you for the information Jean---I assumed that the force_id
option went into /etc/sensors.conf & /etc/sensors3.conf--I inserted
it in a way I thought was correct & got "Error: Line 1225: Invalid
keyword"....The line looks like:  options it87 force_id=0x8718
    

Huu, no, it doesn't go into /etc/sensors3.conf...

  

I then tried to include it into /etc/modules & got no response at all...line looks like:

# Chip drivers
it87
i2c-dev options it87 force_id=0x8718
coretemp
    

... and presumably not into /etc/modules either, although I am no
Debian specialist.

  

So I am at a loss as to where the option should be inserted--there
is not a modprobe file in Ubuntu--Running the current Jaunty testing
9.04 version for x86. Using the stock ubuntu Jaunty kernel--currently
at 2.6.28.8--don't want to create a .29 kernel due to testing
requirements. We have to wait until 9.10 testing in two months to
move to .29.

Thank you for your time..
    

Add the following line to either /etc/modprobe.conf or any file under
directory /etc/modprobe.d:

options it87 force_id=0x8718

Then cycle the it87 driver (rmmod it87 && modprobe it87). This should
do the trick.