Fedora 17 ppc64 Mac G5 Fans

[Ted Carr]

Thanks!  That fixed my issue...

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Robert Knight <knight at princeton.edu> wrote:

> On 08/22/2012 02:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> On 22 August 2012 12:18, Ted Carr <ted at carrpark.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> As my subject line shows, I am running Fedora 17 on my PPC Mac G5 and it
>>> has
>>> been running just fine since I built it in late June.
>>>
>>> I just recently run a 'yum -y upgrade' on my system and rebooted...
>>>  Once it
>>> came back up the fans speed on my system have been pegged at 100%; so it
>>> sounds.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what to look for?
>>>
>>> The CPU load average is: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
>>>
>>> I have included a list of what was updated...  Any help is greatly
>>> appreciated!
>>>
>>> Also, if anyone knows how the get the system to reboot automagically
>>> after a
>>> power failure, that would be great!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>  My first step is usually boot into an older kernel. This will see if
>> the kernel is the cause. After that I check to see if there are any
>> dmesg lines that state what might be funky.
>>
>>  I've also experienced this.  I believe that you need the i2c_powermac
> kernel module, which was not loaded on my PPC G5 when the upgrade to 3.5.0
> occurred.  Adding it yesterday has stopped the 100% fan usage for over 24
> hours now.
>
>


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