2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[beh]

Trying to suspend my A30P, the screen goes black, and then about a
second later, I have this on the console (and syslog of course):

	Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000b0
	 printing eip:
	f882a876
	*pde = 00000000
	Oops: 0000
	CPU:    0
	EIP:    0010:[<f882a876>]    Tainted: PF
	EFLAGS: 00010246
	eax: 00000000   ebx: f7ef8000   ecx: c2013400   edx: f7e9bc00
	esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: 00000000   esp: f7ef9ed0
	ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
	Process kapm-idled (pid: 3, stackpage=f7ef9000)
	Stack: f7ef8000 00000000 f7e9ba00 f8844073 00000000 f7a42000 c2013408 c2016ab4
	       c2016aa0 00000003 f8844153 f7e9bc00 00000000 c01f8f9c c2013400 00000003
	       c01f907e c2013400 00000003 c2016aa0 00000003 00000003 c0278160 c01f9167
	Call Trace: [<f8844073>] [<f8844153>] [<c01f8f9c>] [<c01f907e>] [<c01f9167>]
	   [<c01f91f6>] [<c01219b6>] [<c0121a69>] [<c0110fb0>] [<c0111207>] [<c0111321>]
	   [<c01113a3>] [<c0111d38>] [<c010546f>] [<c0105478>]

	Code: 8b 9c 38 b0 00 00 00 85 db 74 28 8b 43 54 85 c0 74 1a 8b 80


I can continue to work on the machine, but when I try to shut down
the machine, it hangs trying to unload kernel card services (or
maybe immediately AFTER unloading them -- just the last to lines
before the freeze are 'unloading kernel card services'...

Also, what used to work on an A21P, I can no longer get the machine
to hibernate...



Any ideas, what's causing this?  If more information is needed,
just let me know, what additional info I should provide...

In case you need it, I made my /usr/src/lin/ux/.config available at

	http://icemark.net/beh/dotconfig-2.4.17



Any help would be appreciated! :)


        Benedikt

  BEAUTY, n.  The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a
    husband.
			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Thomas Hood]

> Trying to suspend my A30P, the screen goes black, and then about a 
> second later, I have this on the console (and syslog of course): 
[...] 
> 
> EIP:    0010:[<f882a876>]    Tainted: PF 

What kernel modules do you have loaded when this happens? 

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Benedikt Heinen]

> > Trying to suspend my A30P, the screen goes black, and then about a
> > second later, I have this on the console (and syslog of course):
> [...]
> >
> > EIP:    0010:[<f882a876>]    Tainted: PF
> What kernel modules do you have loaded when this happens?

These:

	beh@berenium:~ $ /sbin/lsmod
	Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
	snd-card-intel8x0       8288   0
	snd-pcm-oss            34944   0 (unused)
	snd-mixer-oss           8864   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
	snd-pcm                45760   0 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss]
	snd-timer               9760   0 [snd-pcm]
	snd-ac97-codec         22720   0 [snd-card-intel8x0]
	snd                    23368   0 [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
	soundcore               3268   3 [snd]
	xsvc                   21864   2 (autoclean)
	vmnet                  18016   6
	vmmon                  18228   0 (unused)
	ds                      6368   2
	yenta_socket            8384   2
	pcmcia_core            37568   0 [ds yenta_socket]
	nfsd                   64768   1 (autoclean)
	lockd                  46624   1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
	sunrpc                 57428   1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
	dummy                    960   0 (unused)
	e100                   60228   1
	beh@berenium:~ $ su -

Note:
	snd-*		-> ALSA 0.9.0beta9
	e100		-> EtherExpress Pro driver from Intel,
			   compiled from the debian e100-source package
	xsvc		-> Summit (Accelerated X) driver
			   The problem also occurs without it;
			   Just trying Accelerated X since I can't get
			   agpgart+XFree86+DRI to run...  agpgart fails
			   on modprobe... :/
	vmnet/vmmon	-> VMware 3.0
	pcmcia stuff	-> pcmcia-cs-3.1.31




Hope this helps...

	Benedikt

  BEAUTY, n.  The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a
    husband.
			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Alan Cox]

> 	snd-*		-> ALSA 0.9.0beta9
> 	e100		-> EtherExpress Pro driver from Intel,
> 			   compiled from the debian e100-source package
> 	xsvc		-> Summit (Accelerated X) driver
> 			   The problem also occurs without it;
> 			   Just trying Accelerated X since I can't get
> 			   agpgart+XFree86+DRI to run...  agpgart fails
> 			   on modprobe... :/
> 	vmnet/vmmon	-> VMware 3.0
> 	pcmcia stuff	-> pcmcia-cs-3.1.31

Is there a reason for using all this non standard stuff. Can you reproduce
the problem if you don't load ALSA (I dont think alsa is prime candidate
here) and you've never loaded either vmware or xsvc or the non kernel 
pcmcia since boot ?

Obviously try with a few of them out and see - I've seen several vmware with
new apm code interactions for one , although none of the others were oopses

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Benedikt Heinen]

> Is there a reason for using all this non standard stuff. Can you reproduce
> the problem if you don't load ALSA (I dont think alsa is prime candidate
> here)

*smile*
Apparently, that's where you're wrong... I tried removing some
modules, until I found the one causing the trouble:

	snd-card-intel8x0

... :(


I guess it's time to check for newer version on that... :/




On another question, is there a way to find out a hardware config -
I can't switch off all individual devices in the notebook, but if I
use the prism2 driver from linux-wlan.com, I can't get the full
performance out of it - but just something like ~20kb/s throughput
in ftp  (Win2K gets more than 500kb/s)...
Some people on the linux-wlan mailing list suggested, it might be a
hardware conflict, but they couldn't give me a better idea on HOW
to locate it...
Any clue, how I could go about that?



      Benedikt

  BEAUTY, n.  The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a
    husband.
			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Thomas Hood]

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 15:43, Benedikt Heinen wrote: 
> Apparently, that's where you're wrong... I tried removing some
> modules, until I found the one causing the trouble:
> 
> 	snd-card-intel8x0
> I guess it's time to check for newer version on that... :/

ALSA device drivers have routines that save and restore 
the state of sound chips across suspend & resume. 
That's where I'd go a-hunting for bugs. 

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Alan Cox]

> I can't switch off all individual devices in the notebook, but if I
> use the prism2 driver from linux-wlan.com, I can't get the full
> performance out of it - but just something like ~20kb/s throughput
> in ftp  (Win2K gets more than 500kb/s)...

What happens if you use the in kernel pcmcia, and the in kernel prism 
chipset drivers ?

Re: 2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

[Benedikt Heinen]

> > I can't switch off all individual devices in the notebook, but if I
> > use the prism2 driver from linux-wlan.com, I can't get the full
> > performance out of it - but just something like ~20kb/s throughput
> > in ftp  (Win2K gets more than 500kb/s)...
> What happens if you use the in kernel pcmcia, and the in kernel prism
> chipset drivers ?

The in-kernel prism driver doesn't seem to work with the built-in
wireless lan. But - from what I understand from the Configure.help,
this is what I'd expect - to me it looks like, linux will support
prism2 in either PCMCIA or PLX.
>From the linux-wlan-ng driver, I need to compile "Prism2.5 native
PCI" to get a driver that will recognize the card...


    Benedikt

  BEAUTY, n.  The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a
    husband.
			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)