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

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Dimitar!

As you may know YDL was originally created by Terra Soft Solutions
(TSS), which was absorbed or bought by Fixstars.  Long story short,
provided great support for all versions of YDL, which was continued by
Fixstars, for some years.  Official support for YDL ended quite some
years ago (at least 8).

You can still find however their support notes and advisories.  I'm
going to share the link addressing your particular problem.  The
difficulty you may face is that the last release for YDL for any
PowerPC system was YDL 6.2.

The "fix" created to address the fan problem was designed for YDL 4.1
which required the use of a specifically designed kernel (the link is
provided in the explanation) your problem will be - does the link still
work and does the kernel TSS produced still exist!

Unfortunately, I am not running YDL on a G5, I run YDL 6.2 from a
Powerbook.  So other than providing the link to this reference
material I cannot help you further.  Feel free however to reference
the other links and references you can find which address your G5
specific queries.

One more thing, Fixstars is not providing any support; the days when
TSS or Fixstars engineers provided suggestions or guidance on PowerPC
systems is long over.  Therefore what you can find online as reference
is all that is left.

Here is the link addressing the G5 fan resolution, Good Luck!

http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/ydl_4.x/fan-control.shtml

Sincerely, Derick Centeno 

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:28:58 -0500
Dimitar Georgievski <mitkany at gmail.com> 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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