From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2230299 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:01:07 -0500 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:00:54 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Random Trap 008's with T60 Message-ID: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 2:07:52 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:13:21 +0945 "Paul Smedley" >wrote: >>Hi Gang, >> >>I've had this problem for a while, but have never worried too much about >>it as the T60 is basically just a hack machine for testing things out on >>when I don't want to trash my desktop, but since my monitor died on my >>last night after a power cut, my desktop is useless, so I'm using the >>T60 full time until I can get the monitor repaired. >> >>Anyway, to the problem - the T60 works great in normal use, the only >>problem is if I leave it idle for a while, I come back and find the >>system sitting at a trap dump screen (Trap 0008). >> >>Any suggestions? >> >>Currently running eCS v2 rc6a (although same trap appeared with older >>rc's too). I might try using Panorama in place of Snap and see if that >>helps, other than than I have no clue :( >> >Hi, Paul... > >A couple things come to mind: > >Power management & GenMAC > >Which Win32 driver is in your wrapper directory? I updated some a while >back, but I'd have to look to see if the few I submitted cover the T60 (I >believe they do/did). Try turning off all power mgmt on the system. Check >the BIOS & embedded controller firmware versions against the latest >available from Lenovo. > >If you do swap video drivers, remember that the SDD helper driver improves >Panorama performance by several orders of magnitude, & appears to be safe >(by all accounts thusfar, AFAIK). FWIW, I have just recently begun to experience similar problems with my T60. The thing that makes my situation very strange is I have not made any changes to my system in any way for about six months, with one exception: I have refreshed SeaMonkey a couple of times as Peter W. has released his enhanced updates. No changes whatsoever to ACPI or GenMac, and I use SNAP instead of Panorama. Most, but not all of the cases that I recall have occurred when the system was idle and the Screen Saver was active. I use the Iterated Function System (IFS) in motion screen saver; written by Doodle. [I've got it set up with a password to keep the grandkids away if I'm not watching! :-). ] But, again, no changes to the system for a long time. So, why this would just start is a bit of a mystery. Carl