Manual fan control on iBook G4?

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at nsu.ru
Tue Jul 29 06:53:14 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:45:13PM -0700, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> The fan should be controlled automatically.  If you want manual control
> you can set sysctl machdep.manage_fans=0 and manage the fans with
> dev.adt746x.* . Since the machine doesn't get very warm, chances are you
> may never hear them.

Thanks, I'll try that.  I do not mistrust automatic fan control; I just
want to ensure that fan is not dirty (jammed) or broken; hence I needed a
way to force fan and see how it goes.  Once I rule out fan as a reason for
these lock-ups I see in Tiger, I'll be happy with normal fan management.

./danfe


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