Re: 2.0.33p3: system freeze+oops
Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:54:35 +0100
>
> > > If you have power management turned on (aka APM), turn it off and see how
> > > you go... Looks like the APM code make be breaking your system
> >
> > Are there known issues with APM in 2.0.3x? I've got a Nec Versa 6000H
> > notebook that has recently had an annoying tendancy to lockup, most
>
> Not especially. However there are a small number of machines around where
> we see traces of the form
>
> [sane execution]
> hlt
> { One assumes APM gets in }
> ridiculously impossible crash next few instrucitons
>
> and also on some K5's similar crashes with APM disabled but hlt on (and
> stable with hlt disabled)
The original author Karsten Weiss <karsten@addx.au.s.shuttle.de> says
something about:
| Genuine Intel 486DX4/100
| ASUS SP3G
| SoundBlaster 16
| NE2000 (ISA)
APM and SP3G seems unlikely. What's happen if the kernel is optimized only
for an i386 CPU?
Werner