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Greystash

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Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« on: January 02, 2019, 04:55:24 PM »
After a long time of searching I've found a fan controller for my PB G4. It was created by Andrea Fabrizi and works on PB G4s and Ibooks, download here: https://github.com/andreafabrizi/G4FanControl.

I've only tested on my PB so far and it works great.

It has been discontinued and the source is now available, so it may be useful/editable for other machines!
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DieHard

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Re: Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2019, 10:43:11 PM »
Is there an OS 9 Version ?
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Re: Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2019, 11:17:47 PM »
Haven't found anything for OS9 yet but I'm keeping my eye out, and am working on several things to try mimic this. My PB G4 gets too hot running OS9 for long periods of time.
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Re: Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2025, 01:47:52 PM »
Could this be done somehow for Mac OS 9?
https://github.com/andreafabrizi/G4FanControl
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Re: Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2025, 02:36:11 PM »
Source code is in C, so, theoretically, it should be doable by someone who has OS9 programming skills.
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Re: Fan controller for PowerBook G4s and iBooks
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2025, 01:20:28 AM »
yeah, this would be amazing!
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