Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:51:28 -0400 From: Britt Dodd <brittman914@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: powerpc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manual fan control on iBook G4? Message-ID: <CAMtLt3sSLrZZJRda7cek0egPnxm5EPcGu56cdjMzQR6FJ=4FdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140728153559.GA41604@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20140728153559.GA41604@regency.nsu.ru>
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On Linux, there's a module called pmu_battery that you have to load in order to get things working like the battery life (and percentage), fan control, etc. I presume that it would be similar in BSD. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've digged out that old pity iBook G4 of mine (should be something like > PowerBook6,5 I guess) that had been hanging under Tiger within few minutes > after boot and installed FreeBSD on it. Surprisingly, it works fine under > it. :) > > I'm suspecting either a faulty harddrive, or non-working fan. So far no > matter what heavy port I build, fan does not kick it. Does FreeBSD support > fan control on this baby? How can I manually engage it to see if it works? > (I've tested that power line has +5V, but don't know how can I PWM control > it from command line. Is it PWM, in fact? -- just guessing since there are > four wires coming into it.) > > Another weird thing: CPU frequency per dmesg(8) is strangely low: > > $ grep cpu0 /var/run/dmesg.boot > cpu0: Motorola PowerPC 7447A revision 1.1, 535.22 MHz > cpu0: Features 9c000000<PPC32,ALTIVEC,FPU,MMU> > > while per various websites, 7447A CPU on it should clock at at least 1GHz. > > Any clues? How can I read Mac model from NVRAM (akin to what Mac OS X > provides via `hw.model' sysctl, or something like that)? Thanks. > > ./danfe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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