It did occur to me that it might be a BIOS issue. In any case I have now upgraded the bios from A07 to A08 and the symptoms remain the same.
Following the BIOS update the output of terminal command is - A08 07/10/2007 On 27/02/14 08:00, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: > Terry Relph-Knight, as per > http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/xps-m1210 an update to > your BIOS is available (A08). If you update to this following > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate does it change anything? If it > doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output > of the following terminal command: > sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date > > Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so > posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. > > For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette > . > > Thank you for your understanding. > > ** Summary changed: > > - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > + [Dell XPS M1210] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > (null) > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283741 Title: [Dell XPS M1210] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1283741/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
