[21:02] <psusi> I just got a new sandybridge system and in order to read the cpu temperature I have to manually load the coretemp and pkgtemp modules.  I assume it just needs a new modalias to match my hardware.  can anyone explain to me a bit about how that works so I can try to get it into natty?
[21:07] <mjg59> There aren't any modaliases for cpu devices
[21:16] <psusi> how do the modules get loaded then?  I thought they had some kind of modalias that matched dmi or something
[21:31] <mjg59> They get loaded by you adding them to /etc/modules
[21:31] <mjg59> Do modinfo coretemp - there's no modalias lines there
[21:51] <psusi> why not?  k8temp and k10temp do?
[22:18] <mjg59> Because the AMD machines have a specific PCI device ID associated with the CPU