Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> On my old Pentiium III, at boot the following message appears: >> >> via686a 0000:00:04.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use >> force_addr=0xaddr >> >> How can I eliminate it? > > From the Kernel Documentation: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/hwmon/via686a > > Module Parameters > ----------------- > > force_addr=0xaddr Set the I/O base address. Useful for boards that > don't set the address in the BIOS. Look for a BIOS > upgrade before resorting to this. Does not do a > PCI force; the via686a must still be present in lspci. > Don't use this unless the driver complains that the > base address is not set. > Example: 'modprobe via686a force_addr=0x6000' > > So, if you need to set this (that is, if a BIOS upgrade is unavailable > or does not fix things), create a file /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf, with the > contents "options via686a force_addr=0xaddr" (where 0xaddr is an > appropriate value).
Thanks, I will. The file should be modesetting.conf. But how do I know what the appropriate parameter for `0xaddr' will be? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87twtgnkxd....@gmail.com
