Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Darac Marjal <mailinglist@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