Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:05:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: jmt@tbe.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APM problems on NEC Versa 2000C Message-ID: <200007040205.TAA00618@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "24 Jun 2000 14:12:53 EDT." <m3d7l7vtga.fsf@duchess.twilley.org>
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> 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
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