[lug] apm gpfs

[Elyse Grasso]

Anyone know where the best place to report apmd problems is? Would it be the 
kernel folks? Or the person supporting the apmd utilities? It looks like the 
problem is very low-level...

Attempts to interract with apm on Inspiron 2500 laptops produce results like 
the following (KRUD/RedHat 7.2, but also occurs with 7.1).

general protection fault: e998
CPU:	0
EIP:	0050:[<00002ffb>]	Not tainted
EFLAGS:	00010046
eax: 00000292	ebx: 00000001	ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
esi: c023149a	edi: 00000014	ebp: c9f6de80	esp: c9f6de78
ds: 0058	es: 0000	ss: 0018
Process apmd (pid 781, stackpage c9f6d000)
Stack:	5319519e 0000de80 00000058 149a0292 de940050 00000001 530a0000 00000016
	00485369 00000000 c9f6def8 c01109b3 00000010 c9f6def8 00000292 ffff0018
	00000018 cbe50000 c0120000 c9f6df32 c023149a ffffffff c9f5c000 c0110bbf
Call Trace: [<c01109b3>] apm_bios_call [kernel] 0x43
[<c0120000>] force_sig [kernel] 0x0
[<c023149a>] .rodaata.str1.1 [kernel] 0x5c35
[<c0110bbf>] apm_get_power_status [kernel] 0x3f
[<c0126c24>] do_munmap [kernel] 0x64
[<c0111886>] apm_get_info [kernel] 0x46
[<c0153704>] proc_file_read [kernel] 0x94
[<c0106f3b>] sys_read [kernel] 0x96
[<c0106f3b>] system_call [kernel] 0x33