Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Tony, On 13.05.22 01:11, to...@suse.de wrote: [...] Overheating is common and I'm aware of the process to try to fix it but my concern is that the machine has also become totally unstable in Open Firmware (OF). Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is there any visi

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/12/22 19:11, to...@suse.de wrote: This is a bit off-topic but hoping someone may have some advice. I have a PowerMac Quad Core G5 2.5ghz I have a similar unit that runs flawlessly and seems to be fairly indestructable. The only issues happen when messing with a new Debian installer image

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Tony, Hi. > Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is > there any visible leakage (remove power before looking into that)? Yes and no. > not, it could be that the water cooler is missing some liquid a

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:56:00AM -0700, to...@suse.de wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > Hi. > > > Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is > > there any visible leakage (remove power before looking into that)? >

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Linux User #330250
On 13 May 2022, to...@suse.de wrote: > Initially OF was stable but I noticed that the machine had stopped > chiming at power on and in the course of trying the various fixes for > this OF has become totally unstable. The volume for the chime can be changed, also muted. I think it is an OF NVRAM s

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Clearly there is. My concern however is that I have two issues and > > the OF one is distinct from the cooling one. The machine can boot into > > the existing Linux (from SATA) and stay up indefinitely (if load av < > > 1.5) b

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Tony! On 5/13/22 01:11, to...@suse.de wrote: > Right now it's running 3.0 Linux kernel. It's overheating. It will > boot into X11 and remain up pretty much indefinitely if the load > average remains under 1.5. If I start Firefox I'll get a spike > (log warnings from Windfarm that the temp

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 07:51:27PM +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote: > > I downloaded ASD 2.6.3 which is the correct version for the hardware, > > converted the dmg to iso. If I boot with 'c' the screen goes all grey > > (which seems normal) then the machine hangs. I can mount the ISO > > from Linu

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread Ken Cunningham
No doubt you know, but I don’t see anyone has said (may have missed it) that you will need to re-run thermal calibration after monkeying with the CPUs as otherwise they are not set up right. To do that you will need to get that machine to boot from that ASD CD, one way or another. Ken > On Ma

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:21:47AM -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > No doubt you know ... will need to re-run thermal calibration > > To do that you will need to get that machine to boot from that ASD > CD, one way or another. Yes, I do. I'll take the motherboard out this weekend. I'll check