Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Michael Copeland <michael@kryptos-security.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick question about dev.smu dev.smusat on powermac11,2 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210281249500.41855@banshee.munuc.org> In-Reply-To: <CAKLtBCjdNpXKktDX0YAdRn2OPEAeXoP3G9XY-aDuRBCLdXKdPA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKLtBCjdNpXKktDX0YAdRn2OPEAeXoP3G9XY-aDuRBCLdXKdPA@mail.gmail.com>
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It should work fine (it does on my desktop, which is a G5 of the same model). Since I wrote that program, fan control has moved to the kernel. The fans should be fairly quickly responsive (the algorithm is quite basic) but should never go to full or cause a panic. Which release are you running? There were some improvements to fan control in 9.1. -Nathan On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Michael Copeland wrote: > Is the fan control disabled by default on a GP dual core? Only reason I ask > is that the fans on spool up under full load, and that usually results in a > panic. > I did make a rather simple program and associated script to control the > fans, but this happens to result in the fans constantly going up and down > by about 300-400 rpm even while doing something simple like portsnap > extract. I checked the list after doing that, and found a thread where > someone else already did the same thing(a common problem of mine, I usually > try to fix it myself without checking the list). I swapped out the program > written by Nathan, but my results are the same. It DOES work, but I was > only wondering if it's normal for the fan speed to vary so often. > > Thanks, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > 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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