Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 03:53:44 +0900 From: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, eric@haydenisland.verio.net, hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm on quantex h-1331 w/ pao 2.2.8 Message-ID: <199905221855.DAA28210@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 12:30:33 -0600" <199905221830.MAA06792@mt.sri.com> References: <199905221830.MAA06792@mt.sri.com>
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Hello, Nate. nate> > : however, any other use of apm crashes the system with a general nate> > : protection fault (i have the output from the crash) and dumps me to nate> > : the debugger. nate> > nate> > 2.2.8 non-PAO had a bug where it would attempt to use APM 1.2 features nate> > on a 1.1 BIOS. nate> nate> Really? How so? Maybe this one, I think. From: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: apm & current Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:43:35 +0900 Message-ID: <199902141646.BAA21353@tasogare.imasy.or.jp> iwasaki> > Also kernel panics every time when I run apm, but zzz - suspend is iwasaki> > working. iwasaki> iwasaki> I already noticed that this problem happens on some old laptops which has iwasaki> apm v1.1 or 1.0 (Sotec WinBookPro DX4/100, DEC HiNote Ultra II, etc.). iwasaki> -current/-stable apm(8) try to call APM v1.2 BIOS functions iwasaki> (e.g. APM_RESUMETIMER) without version checking. iwasaki> Some of the old APM BIOSes, however, can make kernel panic when recieved iwasaki> unkown APM BIOS functions. iwasaki> In /sys/i386/apm/apm.c, apm_get_info() has the same problem iwasaki> (APM_GETCAPABILITIES), therefore xbatt also will cause the same trouble. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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