2.4.17: oops in kapm-idled? (on IBM Thinkpad A30P [2653-66U])

Trying to suspend my A30P, the screen goes black, and then about a
second later, I have this on the console (and syslog of course):

	Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000b0
	 printing eip:
	f882a876
	*pde = 00000000
	Oops: 0000
	CPU:    0
	EIP:    0010:[<f882a876>]    Tainted: PF
	EFLAGS: 00010246
	eax: 00000000   ebx: f7ef8000   ecx: c2013400   edx: f7e9bc00
	esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: 00000000   esp: f7ef9ed0
	ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
	Process kapm-idled (pid: 3, stackpage=f7ef9000)
	Stack: f7ef8000 00000000 f7e9ba00 f8844073 00000000 f7a42000 c2013408 c2016ab4
	       c2016aa0 00000003 f8844153 f7e9bc00 00000000 c01f8f9c c2013400 00000003
	       c01f907e c2013400 00000003 c2016aa0 00000003 00000003 c0278160 c01f9167
	Call Trace: [<f8844073>] [<f8844153>] [<c01f8f9c>] [<c01f907e>] [<c01f9167>]
	   [<c01f91f6>] [<c01219b6>] [<c0121a69>] [<c0110fb0>] [<c0111207>] [<c0111321>]
	   [<c01113a3>] [<c0111d38>] [<c010546f>] [<c0105478>]

	Code: 8b 9c 38 b0 00 00 00 85 db 74 28 8b 43 54 85 c0 74 1a 8b 80

I can continue to work on the machine, but when I try to shut down
the machine, it hangs trying to unload kernel card services (or
maybe immediately AFTER unloading them -- just the last to lines
before the freeze are 'unloading kernel card services'...

Also, what used to work on an A21P, I can no longer get the machine
to hibernate...

Any ideas, what's causing this?  If more information is needed,
just let me know, what additional info I should provide...

In case you need it, I made my /usr/src/lin/ux/.config available at

	http://icemark.net/beh/dotconfig-2.4.17

Any help would be appreciated! :)

        Benedikt

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