> but Linux is running in protected mode where access to this value
> as a segment descriptor is illegal. The BIOS is buggy!
I flashed the BIOS with IBM's latest image and the oops went away.
However, suspend (hibernate) still doesn't work!
Now, both suspend and standby give a standby. I cannot get a suspend,
either by pressing the suspend key combination or using the apm -s
command. Neither one will do a hibernate, only a standby.
Any ideas on this one now?
Thanks,
John
>
> > My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 310ED (I believe this model was
> > introduced last fall. It is a P133 MMX). I am getting protection
> > faults at 0040. Is it possible to make the Linux kernel use a
> > different location for whatever it is trying to store at 0040? Would
> > one of the exclude kernel parameters that I seem to recall hearing
> > about at one time fix this, and if so, what exactly should I exclude?
> > (How much RAM, etc.)
>
> See above - it is not that simple.
>
> > I am suspecting that this problem is why I cannot suspend or hibernate
> > my laptop under Linux. It will do either of those fine under bare DOS
> > (no config.sys, autoexec.bat, etc) or Windows.
>
> DOS runs in real mode.
>
> > Further, it seems that apm_bios.c in even 2.1.82 was last updated in
> > 1996 -- and there may well be more laptops appearing since then that
> > may need special support. Is anybody still working on the APM driver?
> > It seems somewhat out of date.
>
> OK, there is not much work going on with the APM driver for various
> reasons - the biggy being that APM is now defunct :-( There is a new
> API for doing power management that I know nothing about (yet). Also
> there have not been any major revisions of teh APM BIOS specifiation anyway.
>
> I think the only solution is to complain to IBM and get it fixed.
> There may already be an updated BIOS available (I don't know).
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
> --
> Stephen Rothwell Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
>
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