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

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

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

It seems it is `0x6000': with it, the message didn't appear any more.

Thanks!,

Rodolfo