On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:01:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Looking at the one laptop with this problem I could acquire access to it seems
> that the box switches to SMM mode with interrupts disabled for several timer
> ticks. During this time the i2c bus is active and it appears to be having a
> slow polled conversation with the battery or something attached to the battery
> and monitoring it.
Sounds like a good explanation.
> Doing
>
> while { true }
> do
> cat /proc/apm
> done
>
> made the box visibly stall and jerk doing X operations
Yup, same over here. Is there any way to find out if my laptop also
enters SMM mode? Just to check if it has the same problem as your
laptop.
Erik
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