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Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000 
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[ 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.


Nate