PowerMac G5 Quad - fan control?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:27:02 -0500
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 03/24/11 16:17, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:21:18 -0500
> > Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 03/20/11 14:04, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:53:24 -0500
> >>> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Try building a new kernel with the latest SVN. I *think* I fixed this.
> >>>> -Nathan
> >>>
> >>> Will csup do? The handbook doesn say anything about svn:
> >>> http://www.no.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, that will do fine. It usually lags a few hours, but the change went
> >> in several days ago now.
> >
> > I tried csup'ing; unfortunately, the machine panic'ed again while doing that.
> > Perhaps I'll just try reinstalling with a newer snapshot.
> 
> If it's the problem I think it is, turning off NTP and setting the 
> sysctl machdep.disable_rtc_set=1 should make it not panic in that way 
> until you manage to upgrade.

Yes, that worked. Thank you. The machine now runs:
root at kg-g5# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-g5.kg4.no 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 27 01:52:37 CET 2011     root at kg-g5.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  powerpc

(on that particular partition).
More info here: http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g5_quad_freebsd
-- 
Torfinn