Bug 19334

Summary:	Apmd segfaults at statup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	aglenn2
Component:	apmd	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.0
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Description aglenn2 2000-10-18 20:41:17 UTC

I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e, and none of the apm featues will work. Apmd
segfaults and will not start. I can manually suspend, but not with apm.
Consiquently the battery monitors do not work. I'm not sure what is at
fault: apmd, my hardware, the kernel ...

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-18 20:47:25 UTC

Your BIOS is at fault. We're seeing this problem with a lot of Dell notebooks with some BIOS versions, and there's nothing we can do to fix it.

Try getting a new BIOS from Dell. If the current version doesn't fix it, try sending them a message explaining their APM support is broken.