My laptop keeps crashing
I have installed debian on an IBM Thinkpad (model 310ED--- this
seems to be a little-used model, I'm beginning to understand why).
I used the CD's that came with Dale Scheetz's DEBIAN LINUX USER'S GUIDE.
Most of the system worked as I expected. However, I have recently
been experiencing crashes, screens going black, and other strange
behavior. The most recent crash came while I was using emacs (not
from X).
Suddenly the screen filled with a bunch of stuff I don't understand.
I hope somebody can explain what the excerpts below might mean, and what
I should do about it.
(pid: 1 process nr: 1 stackpage = 002ad000 )
Unable to handle kernel paging request at (bunch of zeroes)
current -> tss.cr3 = 00c5000 %cr3 = 00cc5000
(then the word STACK followed by a bunch of 8-digit numbers)
kpde = 0
Oops: 0003
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010 [ < 0010a31b ]
EEFLAGS: 00010246
(bunch more junk)
Process init (pid: 178, process nr: 4, stackpage 00fab00)
The machine was printing, every 30 seconds or so
polling: lp0@0x03bc
when I turned it off.
I think lp0 refers to the parallel port, but I don't have a printer
or anything else attached there.
I have been experiencing difficulty using kermit and trying to get
X to work, but neither of these had been tried during the session involving
the most recent crash, so I suspect the problem may be elsewhere.
Thanks very much for any help.
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