Manual fan control on iBook G4?
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at nsu.ru
Mon Jul 28 15:35:06 UTC 2014
Hi there,
I've digged out that old pity iBook G4 of mine (should be something like
PowerBook6,5 I guess) that had been hanging under Tiger within few minutes
after boot and installed FreeBSD on it. Surprisingly, it works fine under
it. :)
I'm suspecting either a faulty harddrive, or non-working fan. So far no
matter what heavy port I build, fan does not kick it. Does FreeBSD support
fan control on this baby? How can I manually engage it to see if it works?
(I've tested that power line has +5V, but don't know how can I PWM control
it from command line. Is it PWM, in fact? -- just guessing since there are
four wires coming into it.)
Another weird thing: CPU frequency per dmesg(8) is strangely low:
$ grep cpu0 /var/run/dmesg.boot
cpu0: Motorola PowerPC 7447A revision 1.1, 535.22 MHz
cpu0: Features 9c000000<PPC32,ALTIVEC,FPU,MMU>
while per various websites, 7447A CPU on it should clock at at least 1GHz.
Any clues? How can I read Mac model from NVRAM (akin to what Mac OS X
provides via `hw.model' sysctl, or something like that)? Thanks.
./danfe
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