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

[Danny Hembree]

sysctl -w kernel.powersave-nap = 1

will quiet the fans down. You can put it in /etc/sysctl.conf to preserve
the setting across boots.

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 12:28 -0500, 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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