According to Rory Campbell-Lange, on Tue, 25 May 2004 13:50:06 +0100, >My new G3 800Mhz has the fan on a lot (and seems pretty hot under my >left hand). Is this normal? When I'm working late the noise is quite >distracting in a quiet room
First, I would suggest using cpufreqd, for scaling down to 400MHz when you don't need full power. I can send you a working config if needed. cpudynd does not seem necessary. Second, the fan control chip may be initialized with too low thresholds (on my G3, they are too high). I have a kernel patch to access it and I need testers to make it included in the kernel :o). So if you mind... have a look at http://cedric.pradalier.free.fr/ibook2/index.html and report ! It adds a module adm103x which gives you a way to set fan starting temps, and to monitor real temperatures (about 50 Celcius in general). > >Debian testing kernel: > Linux roz 2.6.6-powerpc #1 Thu May 13 19:43:40 CEST 2004 ppc > GNU/Linux > >cpuinfo: > processor : 0 > cpu : 750FX > temperature : 11-13 C (uncalibrated) > clock : 800MHz > revision : 2.2 (pvr 7000 0202) > bogomips : 1585.15 > machine : PowerBook4,3 > motherboard : PowerBook4,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh > detected as : 257 (iBook 2 rev. 2) > pmac flags : 0000000b > L2 cache : 512K unified > memory : 640MB > pmac-generation : NewWorld > > PMU driver version : 2 > PMU firmware version : 0c > AC Power : 1 > Battery count : 1 > > cat cpufreq > minimum CPU frequency - maximum CPU frequency - > policy > CPU 0 400000 kHz ( 50 %) - 800000 kHz (100 %) - > performance > >I am running apm and sleep and so on works well. If needs be, I don't >mind dialling down the cpu speed if this is possible. > -- Cedric "[Of course] I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail
