I8k

This article describes the setup of i8k, a driver to monitor cpu temperature and fan speed of some Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops.

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

When you load the module, there is a check, if your laptop is supported. If not, the module will not load. If you want to load the module anyway, you have to build the driver as module. Then you can set an option to force the load of the module:

Software
See the lm_sensors article.

Addon software

 * - Dell Inspiron and Latitude utilities
 * - GKrellM2 plugin

External resources

 * i8kutils homepage