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Noisy G5
Hi all.
I'm trying to breath some life into an old imac G5 they're throwing out at work, so I put OpenBSD on it. The install was super fast, most impressive and easy. But I have an issue with the fans blasting at full speed. I've search around and found some old mailing list stuff from 2009 claiming there is no fan control in OpenBSD, but I wondered if this was still the case? No way I can sit using the machine with that amount of noise! I'm using OpenBSD 5.3, imac g5 (not isight). Any thoughts or clarification of possibility would be appreciated. Cheers, J |
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The number of regulars at this site is relatively small, & the number of people working with Apple hardware is smaller still. Having read the project's ppc@ mailing list for years (although with mis-categorized traffic bleeding into misc@...), Apple historically tweaks hardware throughout the production run of all models. Has this been fully addressed in the hardware complement you have? I don't know.
I have the following two suggestions:
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Ah I see how the releases work now. Apologies, I had presumed 'current' to be the equivalent of Debian's 'testing'.
I shall install current and post to the relevant development mailing list if the problem persists. Thanks for the pointer. J |
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If you either file a bug report or post to ppc@, any information given will be taken more seriously if you provide the entire output of dmesg(8). This will provide to developers the kernel's interpretation of the hardware environment, & perhaps answer many other questions they will undoubtedly have about your particular machine.
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What, you didn't like Apple's imitation of a jet engine?
Funny enough, I did have a G5 sitting around. I ran into the same issue, but the last time I tried OpenBSD on it was back on 5.1. What I would do is this. Set the apmd flag in your /etc/rc.conf.local file. Code:
apmd_flags="-C" |
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