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e1fjl

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Registered: 2009-07-30

Posts: 13

Compiling and Installing Drivers

Hi all,

I'm setting up Arch on a PPC Powermac G5. I've overcome several yaboot issues and managed to get Arch to boot successfully (after 2 days trying!)

Only problem now is that the fans run at 100% all the time, and the fans in the G5 are very noisy.

I've found this which has a therm_pm72.c file and therm_pm72.h file for controlling G5 fans.

If someone could explain how to compile this driver and insert it into my Arch installation I'd be appreciative as I'm relatively new to linux and keen to learn.

Cheers!

pauline123

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Registered: 2010-12-06

Posts: 11

Re: Compiling and Installing Drivers

I think you might need to compile yourself a new kernel, however I am not an expert on the kernel and its modules.  However you might be able to gleen some information that will help from these sites.

modules (external)
help with kconfig
forum post that might be of marginal assistance

For more help than those provide you might want to read through (at least sections 2 and 5) of kernel.org docs

Good luck!

Last edited by pauline123 (2010-12-07 16:48:15)

e1fjl

Member

Registered: 2009-07-30

Posts: 13

Re: Compiling and Installing Drivers

Thanks Pauline. I actually found some bash code for Ubuntu which modprobed a load of stuff. I tried it out and my fans shut up so I assume it worked!

I'll have a read through that stuff anyone so thanks for posting