On 12/30/20 9:57 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about its > cooling. > > I noticed that while installing Debian, the fan spins at full speed and it > really deserves > the term "windfarm", it is as loud as a vacuum cleaner. > > Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet when doing nothing > (console prompt) and > remains quiet when doing several things (also unexpected ones).
There were multiple bugs in the windfarm drivers in the upstream kernel such as [1], make sure you are running the latest Debian kernel before reporting any such problems. Thanks, Adrian > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bcf3588d8ed3517e6ffaf083f034812aee9dc8e2 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
