[lug] apm gpfs

[D. Stimits]

Elyse Grasso wrote:
> 
> 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).

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D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> 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
> 
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