From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 20 16:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB181586C for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01632; Thu, 20 May 1999 16:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905202315.QAA01632@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Colin Eric Johnson Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel stops when APM is loaded In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 16:28:16 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:15:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, the problem that I am seeing is more like this: > > As the kernel is loading it's reporting back what devices are found. When > it gets to apm0 it reports that it found it and that it is of type 1.2 and > stops there. It is almost as if it is spinning it's wheels waiting for > something. The keyboard doesn't respond to ``normal'' keypresses but a > CTRL-ALT-DEL does get captured by the kernel and the machine reboots. I > don't get this behavior with a kernel built on (or about) May 4th > (3.1-STABLE) but I do get it with any kernel from subsequent builds. > > Can anyone point me to any changes in the APM code (or the code that it > interacts with) that might be where this problem is occuring. I'm not > really sure how to check what, if anything, has changed in the apm code. If it's printed the APM information, it's probably finished with the APM stuff and onto the next probe. You need to redirect your attention elsewhere... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message