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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000 
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:26:33 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199608201508.JAA20780@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>
>[ Killing off APM ]
>>>>>>Can you disable the apm driver in the 'config' menu and see if it
>>>>>>continues?
>> >> 
>> >> Unfortunately, that is still not enough to kill the evil apm stuff :-(
>> >> 
>> >> You need a kernel compiled without APM to be absolutely sure.
>> >
>> >True, but it would panic 'right away' if it were an APM probe bug.
>> 
>> Nope, it may take as long as the five second graze period you have
>> on the even poll before the panic comes.
>
>Not really.  If you disable it, the only code that get's run is the
>probe code.  The poll will never occur.
>

... which, unfortunately makes some APM's choke :-(


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