lm-sensors appears to have stopped working in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (basically for any distro running Kernel 2.6.31). If you look at your Kernel messages, you will see something like this:
ACPI: I/O resource it87 [0x295-0x296] conflicts with ACPI region IP__
[0x295-0x296]
ACPI: Device needs an ACPI driver
If you want to restore the old behaviour (which might be dangerous) add: "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" to the kernel cmdline when booting (or add it in grub.conf to make this permanent).
To add acpi_enforce_resources=lax to your Grub, in Ubuntu Karmic, press Alt + F2, and enter:
Then save the file.
If you have an Asus motherboard, chances are good there is an ACPI interface to read your sensors, which is safe.
More info about this: here and here.
To add acpi_enforce_resources=lax to your Grub, in Ubuntu Karmic, press Alt + F2, and enter:
gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
And enter the following line:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_enforce_resources=lax"
Then save the file.
If you have an Asus motherboard, chances are good there is an ACPI interface to read your sensors, which is safe.
More info about this: here and here.