Fan control module/tools for Mac G5.

[Jean-Christophe Dubois]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:59 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

Understood, thanks.

> > 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.

OK, I must be out of luck here as my G5 went back to Apple for
maintenance and it seems I got a new one back (2GHz instead of the
original 1.8GHz I bought). I am a bit new with Ubuntu so is there an
easy way to fetch the oary's kernel for test.

Thanks

JC

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>