Attempts to interract with apm on Inspiron 2500 laptops produce results like
the following (KRUD/RedHat 7.2, but also occurs with 7.1).
kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
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
Please let me know if there is other information that would be helpful...
it's been about 15 years since I did device driver work on 8086 based
machines, but I can probably figure out how to get you the information you
ask for.
Thanks
Elyse Grasso
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