Re: Fan control ?

["Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com>]

interesting.... but must be something only available on newer PowerPC  
boxes...
I have no such thing as "/sys/devices/temperatures" .. or anything  
remotely resembling this....

But then again... my TiBook is also one of the earliest Powerbooks  
available.... ;-)

Den 16/09/2009 kl. 23.13 skrev Elimar Riesebieter:

> * John K. Parejko [090916 15:12 -0400]
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just signed up to debian-powerpc, and noticed Niels S. Eliasen's
> > question from September 7th. I was able to get some power management
> > and sensors working on my g4 powerbook (12" 1.33GHz PowerBook6,4).
> >
> > It is now serving as a webserver, NAT firewall, and wireless access
> > point. (hostapd works with the nl80211 drivers in master mode, but
> > required updating to kernel 2.6.30 from backports and hostapd 0.6.9
> > from testing.)
> >
> > Try the following to get a reading of the temperature and fan speed
> > (I've included the output on my machine as an example):
> >
> > $ cat /sys/devices/temperatures/*temp*
> > 49
> > 61
> > $ cat /sys/devices/temperatures/*fan*
> > 64 (4770 rpm)
> > 64 (0 rpm)
> > 64
>
> To check my sensors i ran the attached script.
>
> Elimar
>
>
> --
>  Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge,
>  not the fountainheads ;-)
> <cattemp.txt>

kind regards

nse

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