Fan control module/tools for Mac G5.

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:52:45PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote:
> 1) the installer did not installed the SMP kernel by itself. It would
> have been nice if this was the default as my system is SMP. Did I miss
> something?

We can barely afford space on the CD for three kernels (powerpc, power3,
power4) let alone six (powerpc, powerpc-smp, power3, power3-smp, power4,
power4-smp). The CD install is restricted to kernels known to work, not
optimal kernels.

> 2) The fan control module seems to be missing. As a result my G5 is as
> loud as an turbojet engine. I think the module is supposed to be named
> "therm_pm72" or something similar and I haven't been able to find it in
> the provided modules. Is there some way to get it? Or should I just
> recompile my own kernel and try to include it?

therm_pm72 is compiled into the kernel rather than being a separate
module. As I remember the version in Warty didn't support some newer G5
models, though; Hoary's kernel should fix this.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]