[ydl-gen] Noisy fan on Power G5 and YDL 6.2

[Hal Martin]

He mentioned that it's a "Power G5 1.8GHz" which would be a G5 desktop, not
a PowerBook.

I don't recall if fan speed control was ever fully functional on the G5
tower. IIRC only Apple portables had power management facilities in the
kernel.

-Hal
Am 13.11.2012 14:42 schrieb "Robert T. Drury" <rtdrury at earthlink.net>:

> **
> I gained control of the fan but there was nothing really I could do with
> that except smooth out the fan start/stop, which really wasn't enough.  You
> need the fan to run as set at the factory to control the temperature, so if
> the fan is too loud, look for replacement fans that are quieter.  I'm very
> puzzled as to why Apple chose to put noisy fans in the powerbooks.
>
>
> Dimitar Georgievski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I just installed YDL on my Power G5 1.8 GHz and the fan is out of
> control. It produces so much noise that after couple of minutes I have to
> shut down the computer.
>
>  Is there any fix for this issue? I noticed on older posts in the forums
> users have experienced similar issues in the past. From their replies it
> doesn't look like there is an official fix for this issue yet.
>
>  Here is the info about my Mac
>
>  $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu : PPC970FX, altivec supported
> clock : 1800.000000MHz
> revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
>
>  timebase : 33333333
> platform : PowerMac
> model : PowerMac9,1
> machine : PowerMac9,1
> motherboard : PowerMac9,1 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
> detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5)
> pmac flags : 00000000
> L2 cache : 512K unified
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
>
>  $ uname -a
> Linux myhost 2.6.29-3.ydl61.4 #1 SMP Mon Sep 7 14:50:27 PDT 2009 ppc64
> ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
>
>  thanks,
>
>  Dimitar
>
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