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

2012-11-14 Thread 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 mitk...@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 : 1800.00MHz
 revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
 
 timebase : 
 platform : PowerMac
 model : PowerMac9,1
 machine : PowerMac9,1
 motherboard : PowerMac9,1 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
 detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5)
 pmac flags : 
 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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Re: [ydl-gen] Noisy fan on Power G5 and YDL 6.2

2012-11-14 Thread 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 : 1800.00MHz
 revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
 
 
 timebase : 
 platform : PowerMac
 model : PowerMac9,1
 machine : PowerMac9,1
 motherboard : PowerMac9,1 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh 
 detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5)
 pmac flags : 
 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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Re: [ydl-gen] Noisy fan on Power G5 and YDL 6.2

2012-11-14 Thread rarob
When my dual 2.0 G5 tower was still alive (died w/memory controller
problem in '11) I never noticed fan problems except with the first several
G5 releases from YDL.  I had YDL6 (6.1 I *think*) on it last and it was
ok.  The initial releases when the G5 first came out had zero fan control,
and the box might have taken off given wings and wheels.

-Rob


 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 rtdr...@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 : 1800.00MHz
 revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)

  timebase : 
 platform : PowerMac
 model : PowerMac9,1
 machine : PowerMac9,1
 motherboard : PowerMac9,1 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
 detected as : 337 (PowerMac G5)
 pmac flags : 
 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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