Re: G5 fan control and official debian kernels.
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:17:49AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> hello svenl,
>
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > I have been experimenting with 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 and builtin or modular
> > THERM_PM72 on my XServer G5.
> >
> > The result is as follows :
> >
> > 2.6.16 + modular fan control -> airplan noise level.
> > 2.6.17 + modular fan control -> still noisy, but orders of magnitude lower.
> > 2.6.17 + builtin fan control -> noisy, but acceptable noise level.
>
> did you check it they get loaded by the initramfs?
> please tell which fan and i2c modules need to be added for ppc?
No, it is a bug in the kernel, and even loading them by hand doesn't help.
I do have the module in /etc/modules for the above attempt.
> we currently do in scripts/init-premount/thermal
> case "$DPKG_ARCH" in
> # load the right modules
> powerpc|ppc64)
> modprobe -q i2c-keywest
> modprobe -q therm_pm72
> ;;
Indeed. There are the winfarm ones too.
> > So, i believe that the choice for the debian kernel is to have builtin both
> > the I2C_POWERMAC and the THERM_PM72 modules.
> >
> > Of the other therm control modules, we have :
> >
> > CONFIG_WINDFARM
> > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM81
> > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM91
> > CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM112
> >
> > I suppose they also will all benefit from being builtin, right ?
>
> afaik ubuntu has those modular too,
> please check if loading them real early helps!?
i don't have the hardware for thos,e which is why i wrote this one. It seems
common knowledge that they need to be builtin for now though.
> non-modular may need db-measurement arg :)
not necessarily, but i admit i am not all that knowledgeable about this.
Oh, and BTW, initramfs-tools generated ramdisks attempt to load the
atkbd/i8042 modules on hardware not having any ps2 support. Can anything be
done about it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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