Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:04:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:04:36 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:45765 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:04:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:12:07 +0100 To: John Bradford Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 486 laptop apm problems Message-ID: <20021213091206.GA2692@mob.wid> References: <20021209133058.GA3724@mob.wid> <200212091350.gB9DouN1000766@darkstar.example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212091350.gB9DouN1000766@darkstar.example.net> x-gpg-fingerprint: 717B AE57 49B3 410F A733 FE6A 2D43 E1E3 CF28 6A67 x-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net From: Felix Triebel Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3772 Lines: 113 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:50:56PM +0000, John Bradford wrote: > > why does apmd frequently crash? > > what do all these ide and apm messages mean? > > how should I use such an old apm bios? >=20 > The IDE messages are warning messages, not critical errors - you can > ignore them. >=20 > Please run the oops through ksymoops and post the output. sorry for the delay, but this thing is SLOW and there was some work after it had a hard drive head crash. By the way - does ide taskfile access correct problems silently or give me a message? here is the requested ksymoops output, I hope it is useful: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ksymoops 2.4.5 on i486 2.4.20-rc4-ac1. Options used -V (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o lib/modules/2.4.20-rc4-ac1/ (specified) -m System.map-ac (specified) CPU: 486 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000d8 c011dd5f *pde =3D 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: c1030080 ebx: c101f320 ecx: 00000400 edx: 00000000 esi: c0999000 edi: c10731e8 ebp: c1030080 esp: c0a97ed0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process 00hwclock (pid: 759, stackpage=3Dc0a97000) Stack: c10731cc c10731cc c10731e8 080c1078 c011dee3 c10731cc c0ebeebc 080c1= 078=20 00000001 c0db5304 c10731cc 080c1078 c10731e8 c0ebeebc c0b6e080 c010c= df7=20 c10731cc c0ebeebc 080c1078 00000001 c0a96000 ffff0006 c010cce0 bffff= bec=20 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 2b 82 d8 00 00 00 69 c0 c5 4e ec c4 c1 f8 02 c1 e0 0c 03 82=20 >>EIP; c011dd5f <=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >>eax; c1030080 <_end+e1a454/1dea3d4> >>ebx; c101f320 <_end+e096f4/1dea3d4> >>esi; c0999000 <_end+7833d4/1dea3d4> >>edi; c10731e8 <_end+e5d5bc/1dea3d4> >>ebp; c1030080 <_end+e1a454/1dea3d4> >>esp; c0a97ed0 <_end+8822a4/1dea3d4> Trace; c011dee3 Trace; c010cdf7 Trace; c010cce0 Trace; c0117c49 Trace; c0114a0a Trace; c0114936 Trace; c010e03d Trace; c0106d34 Code; c011dd5f 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c011dd5f <=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 0: 2b 82 d8 00 00 00 sub 0xd8(%edx),%eax <=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Code; c011dd65 6: 69 c0 c5 4e ec c4 imul $0xc4ec4ec5,%eax,%eax Code; c011dd6b c: c1 f8 02 sar $0x2,%eax Code; c011dd6e f: c1 e0 0c shl $0xc,%eax Code; c011dd71 12: 03 82 00 00 00 00 add 0x0(%edx),%eax -------------------------------------------------------------------------- regards, Felix --=20 /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL X AND POSTINGS :) / \ http://www.dcoul.de/ --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE9+aRmLUPh488oamcRAsCDAJ9c/791WqKFXCbpXLDrEdpe2xg+AQCfZ/8L ZUPQlq6DkiadtuiueFEn2Pk= =+jVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/