From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 1:20: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (ppp-179.dialup.clari.net.au [203.57.253.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7772337BA61 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA00734; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006260825.BAA00734@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: jmt@tbe.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APM problems on NEC Versa 2000C In-reply-to: Your message of "24 Jun 2000 14:12:53 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:25:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message