Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:26:33 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000 Message-ID: <10203.840561993@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:08:30 MDT." <199608201508.JAA20780@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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In message <199608201508.JAA20780@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: > >[ 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. > ... which, unfortunately makes some APM's choke :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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