Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more. Thanks!, 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/871tgjlo44.fsf...@gmail.com
