iBook fan

[Aurelio Bay]

Hi,
I have the same impression that power management in general
is not well under control by YD compared to MacOS.
I didn't make any measurement yet but the battery charge on my G4 Ti lasts
much longer with OSX compared to YD2.3.

Cheers
                                                      Aurelio

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 rid@wgi.su.se wrote:

> I am not sure the question is "stupid". I guess that power 
> management can be influenced by the O/S. I have noticed that the 
> HD in my toilet seat iBook never spins down, even after longish 
> periods of incativity, since I installed YDL2.2, which it did when I 
> was "using" Mac OS 9.
> 
> Perhaps you could try resetting the PRAM; all sorts of odd things 
> depend on PRAM. Read up on the procedure and its catches first, 
> though...
> 
> Cheers
> /Rickard
> 
> On 4 Dec 2002, at 15:41, Greg Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is my stupid question.
> > 
> > I have a 500Mhz dual USB iBook, the first of the white ones that don't
> > look like brightly coloured toilet seats. Not long after I bought it I
> > installed Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, which was the latest release of YDL at
> > the time. I've since rebuilt the machine and it just has OSX 10.2.2
> > installed for the moment.
> > 
> > About the same time I installed YDL the internal fan started to run
> > all the time. The only time it ever stops is when the machine is
> > asleep or switched off. The fan actually starts spinning the moment
> > the power comes on. I've been quietly annoyed about the fan for quite
> > awhile now but it's only just occurred to me that it started running
> > all the time around the same time I installed YDL.
> > 
> > There is almost certainly no connection but I thought I'd ask anyway.
> > I suspect the fan is totally under hardware controls and the OS should
> > have no impact on its function but could there be a PRAM setting or
> > something that YDL has changed which could make this happen ?
> > 
> > Also, in anticipation of you all suggesting I take it straight to
> > Apple - the warranty has expired so it could be costly and I'm in
> > Australia where the likelihood of the local Apple supplier having a
> > qualified tech on site is pretty slim so my iBook that I use everyday
> > and don't want to be parted from would probably end up being sent
> > interstate to somebody who'd spend a month or more maybe possibly
> > finding the problem before returning the machine with a bill
> > approaching the replacement cost of the machine.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
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