Bug 844022

Sorry but the bloke that owns the Mac wanted to be able to use his computer again.

I did another clean install of F17 using the install DVD, nothing fancy, just the standard graphical desktop install with nothing extra. After that I installed gkrellm and ran it. All 8 cpu's are running constantly at around 33% capacity, temperatures in the 80's and climbing, and I'm talking Celsius.

Am halfway through reinstalling F16 for the fella now but I did save a lot of his files for you, including:

the anaconda log files
all of the users hidden files
/boot
/etc
/var/log
Various other bits and peices

tried to save the entire lot but ran into trouble doing that, also they're saved on a fat32 file system so all permissions, ownerships and symlinks are gone.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Follow Up:

I just reinstalled F16 on that Mac Pro then loaded gkrellm, only activity was tiny spikes on different cpu's, temperature hanging around 37 degrees celsius which is pretty good considering my room temperature is around 34 degrees. - I live in the tropics.

Did all the updates from a copy of your repo dated 18 March, 2012. I bought it from Osdisc, love those guys!. No temperature concerns or unwarranted activity at all. Now running kernel-3.2.9-2.

Went back in there before ever setting up an internet connection, using Yumex, sorted by groups, ticked every category box (except languages) to install the default programs from each category, he's a new linux user and wants to play with stuff.

Added ATrpms, installed libdvdcss, lame, vlc, clementine, made sure he had the others as in Digikam, Gimp and Grip. Sorry but amarok sucks balls.

Right now he's ripping a dvd to mkv, listening to music on clementine and using digikam and gimp to touch up a few photos. Biggest spike on one cpu I've seen is around 50% and they all seem to be taking it in turns. Temperatures are hanging around the 39 degree mark. Absolutely perfect!

This Mac Pro is *almost* stock standard.

After trying Fedora for about a week the bloke asked me to remove Mac osX fromthe mac while he tried to forget how much money he paid for it. It's now dual boot Fedora/WinXP on a 600Gb drive. Two other 1.5 Tb drives are formatted fat32 so anything can access them.

The only other break from the stock system is it's graphics card died and I had a cheaparse old GT520 hanging around and shoved that in, it works! In F16 I have to load the proprietary driver to get Gnome3, in F17 I don't.

Cheers,

Andrew.

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