What you're describing is the fan running at full speed - which you can Replicate by booting the Mac into the command line and running fsck. There's likely a software patch that addresses this directly.
Chris On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Hal Martin <hal.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 : 1800.000000MHz >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list - yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com >> Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
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