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Emanem (em4n3m) wrote : Driver it87 and lm_sensors are too old and don't support newer chipsets (such as Z370).

Filed a bug report as per question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/662421

I'm trying to run lm_sensors on my brand new motherboard (Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming-CF) using the Z370 chipset, and according to the author/maintainer of lm_sensors/it87 driver, fan controls would be supported by chip it8686.

Currently such chip is supported only in it87 version https://github.com/groeck/it87; unfortunately both Ubuntu's net LTS Bionic and Torvalds' repositories have got an outdated version of this driver (and possible lm_sensors itself):

* http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-bionic.git/tree/drivers/hwmon/it87.c
* https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hwmon/it87.c

Can you please update Bionic (at least) to feature this updated driver?
Controlling fans speed and other motherboard parameters would be great, especially on new hardware.

Thanks!

Full discussion thread with driver maintainer here: https://github.com/groeck/lm-sensors/issues/44