Temperature monitor and fan control?

[John Hupp]

In Saucy, on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop, I want to monitor the CPU 
temperature and preferably have the option of controlling the fans.

I8kmon, installed by the i8kutils package, would seem to be ideal. See 
the documentation at 
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man1/i8kmon.1.html

I installed i8kutils from the standard repo, but I can't get i8kmon 
working at all.

Just running 'i8kmon' should start the program in user mode and display 
a user interface with the current temperature and button controls for 
the fans.  It does indeed display a very small interface on the desktop 
-- with no temperature display, though there are a couple plain button 
controls.

ps -e | grep i8 shows nothing running.  And if I click a button in the 
interface, it generates an error for /proc/i8k, saying there is no such 
file or directory.

Does anyone know how to get this or something equivalent running in Lubuntu?