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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:25:38 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        jmt@tbe.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: APM problems on NEC Versa 2000C 
Message-ID:  <200006260825.BAA00734@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "24 Jun 2000 14:12:53 EDT." <m3d7l7vtga.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> 

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> I have an older 486 laptop which is newly running FreeBSD
> 4.0-RELEASE.  When I attempted to enable APM and reboot, I got the
> following on my screen:
> 
> --begin screen--
> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer     = 0x58:0x337
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xc334dcdc
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xc334dce0
> code segment            = base 0xc00ea00, limit 0xffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0
> processor eflags        = resume, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 184 (apm)
> interrupt mask          = none
> kernel: type 9 trap, code=0
> Stopped at      0x337:

This is inside the APM BIOS - it's probably a BIOS bug that doesn't 
affect Windows/DOS.  With such an old system, you are probably SOL unless 
you can track down more details (eg. special hacks for this system and 
Linux).



-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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