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  From: Stephen Rothwell <Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au>
  To  : <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
        < apmd-list@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:36:43 +1000 (EST)

Re: APM causes oops on power off (Epox MB) (fwd)

> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:19:29 -0400
> From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this?  It's not really my field of
> expertise.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Daniel Horner <horner@ecf.utoronto.ca> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:07:08 -0400
> From: Daniel Horner <horner@ecf.utoronto.ca>
> 
> I was hoping you could forward this message to the APM list if you
> felt it was appropriate. Someone else asked it on the kernel list
> recently and received no reply.
> 
> I have an EPoX motherbord with an Award bios, and it gives me a
> kernel panic - general protection violation right after the "the
> system is halted" message. This happened with kernels 2.0.34 and
> 2.0.35.  
> 
> The system shuts down fine under Win/95. Do you know if there is
> anything I can do about this?
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

This will be fixed in 2.0.36.  You can either download my patch
for 2.0.35 (http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/2.0.35-APM.2.gz) or
the 2.0.36 prepatch (ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan ?)

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell