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> On Jul 4, 2017, at 10:27 PM, Richard Kuenz <richard.ku...@web.de> wrote:
>
> I am sorry, the post was not complete,
>
>
> wanted to say that i tried the command that i took of the Debian homepage,
> but unfortunately cannot execute it due to syntax error.
>
> Could someone please show me solution?
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>
> Do i just need to "modprobe windfarm" and add it to /etc/modules?
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>
>
> Thank you very much for all your help,
>
> very appreciated.
>
>
>
> Richard
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>
>> On 04.07.2017 22:24, Richard Kuenz wrote:
>> Hello ,
>>
>> i have installed Debian Wheezy on a Powermac G5 Quad.
>> Unfortunately the Fans do Full Spin quite all the time.
>>
>>
>> Could someone please indicate me a solution?
>>
>>
>>
>> Fan/Thermal Control
>>
>> This problem is solved in the latest builds of Debian Etch and will be
>> sorted by the time Debian 4.0 is released.
>>
>> Fans will rev to full speed without proper control. This isn't dangerous
>> to your system - but it sure is annoying! In the meantime,the fan issue
>> is solved simply through loading up the correct fan modules and forcing
>> them to load on startup every time. In the terminal:
>>
>> {{{sudo -s apt-get install powernowd cd /lib/modules/$(uname
>> -r)/kernel/drivers/macintosh (ls | cut -d. -f1 | xargs -n1 modprobe)
>> 2>/dev/null lsmod | cut -d" " -f1 | grep windfarm >> /etc/modules exit}}}
>>
>> Done! Fans should slow down immediately and these modules will now load
>> automatically for you every time you start up your system
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 18.06.2017 00:32, Matti Palmström wrote:
>>> > This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately. ppc64el
>>> is a new
>>> ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.
>>>
>>> Ooh... I guess was confused because
>>> https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/#ppc64el says "Here you can find
>>> information about the 64-bit PowerPC Little Endian architecture" and
>>> links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64 which made it look like
>>> PowerPC 970* was little endian too.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help, now I have the installer going.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> /M
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>>> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de <mailto:glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Matti!
>>>
>>> On 06/17/2017 11:54 PM, Matti Palmström wrote:
>>> > I have an iMac G5 iSight with a 64-bit PowerPC 970fx that I try
>>> to install Stretch to. I have
>>> > downloaded debian-stretch-DI-rc5-ppc64el-netinst.iso and burned
>>> it to a cd and dd'ed it to a usb stick.
>>>
>>> This image will not work on your Macintosh G5, unfortunately.
>>> ppc64el is a new
>>> ppc64 port by IBM which is incompatible with old hardware.
>>>
>>> Luckily, there is still a way to install Debian on your machine. You
>>> can download
>>> a CD image for Debian sid by following the link below:
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_powerpc/ws/*zip*/workspace.zip>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unzipping this file should give you an ISO image which you can burn
>>> to a CD and use
>>> to install your G5 with Debian for powerpc. This will give you a
>>> 64-bit kernel (ppc64)
>>> and a 32-bit userland (powerpc).
>>>
>>> We will be providing full 64-bit ppc64 installation media in the
>>> future which will
>>> have both a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit userland but work on that
>>> hasn't finished
>>> yet, unfortunately.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>> --
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