PowerMac G5 Quad - fan control?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:15:58 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Different G5 models have different thermal regulation schemes. On the 
> PCI-Express-based systems (e.g. the Quad), CPU temperatures are read out 
> by the smusat driver, and fan control is done by the smu driver. I wrote 
> a small daemon to manage fans on my dual-core G5 that you may want to 
> adapt that can be found at 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/powermac112-fancontrol.c

Thanks!

I've adapted it, my version is here[1]. How did you figure out the target temperature?
I just run mine in a shell (it needs to be root to change those sysctls), is that the best way.

My machine just panic'ed (sleeping thread) but I don't know if that was related to this program.

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac112-fancontrol-ti.c

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Torfinn