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 2230569 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:02:22 -0500 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:02:09 -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 22:52:24 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:43:37 -0500 (EST) > "Carl Gehr" wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:30:12 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> >>> >>>Carl's post is interesting. Do you have the screensaver enabled, by >>>chance? When idle, do you have Firefox and/or SeaMonkey loaded? (I >>>would >>>see the latter as more related to the GenMAC/power management issue; >>>i.e., the NIC throttles down, and upon waking up, causes the trap. >>>Scott >>>told me once (2002?) that trap 8's are almost always hardware related >>>(interrupts), so I'm thinking of what might leave an interrupt hot... >> >> Maybe not so interesting... [I have no clue!] >> >> BUT, when my system is sitting [supposedly idle], I guess it really >>is >> not! Why? Because I have PMMail set to retrieve mail automatically >>on >> SIX different E-Mail accounts. Since they typically were not first >> primed at the same time, all six do not really hit at the same time. >> OTOH, 'idle' would, I guess, not really be a completely valid >> statement. Thus the NIC might not actually 'throttle down' if it >>takes >> a period of no activity longer than four minutes to trigger it. >> >> Just thought I'd better mention this so no one goes off on a wild >>goose >> chase. >> >Carl, do you have any power management configured in the BIOS? Uhh... I think so... ;-( I've not changed any of that since I got the system two years ago. I think it's generally the default stuff to run flat out when plugged in and battery saving when unplugged. I'm sorta i the middle of something right now that I'd prefer to not interrupt. I'll try to check out what I have set later. OTOH, again, since it's not changed, but the behavior has, I'd have to wonder if the problem is rooted there. I guess I should mention that I'm using the ACPI from 2008-04-23 (3.09). I've been a bit hesitant [aside from no time to install/test anything] to tinker with success. I can move the system into/out of the Docking Station without rebooting. The Wireless LAN is working fine [except for the 'blinking' icon that I've mentioned in past posts.] This new behavior just 'started' with no warning... Carl