Hi, I have this couple of line in my dmesg (more complete dmesg are in attachment). [ 11.171119] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00 [ 11.171124] ACPI: I/O resource nForce2_smbus [0x1c40-0x1c7f] conflicts with ACPI region SM00 [0x1c40-0x1c45] [ 11.171191] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [ 11.171193] nForce2_smbus 0000:00:01.1: Error probing SMB2. #uname -a Linux argos-lnx 2.6.32-13-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:32:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux #dmidecode --type baseboard # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.4 present. Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Product Name: M2N-SLI DELUXE Version: 1.XX Serial Number: 123456789000 Many people have the same bug on differents motherboard (look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/440780) Thanks,
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Hi, The corresponding I/O port(0x1C40-0x1c45) will be accessed by ACPI. If we still load the nforce2_smbus driver, they will access the same I/O port. As there is no synchronization between smbus driver and ACPI, maybe the system can't work well. So when the resource conflict is detected, we had better not load the corresponding nforce2_smbus driver. If you think that nforce2_smbus driver is very important, you can add the boot option of "acpi_enforce_resources=lax". Of course the warning message still exists. But it can be loaded. Thanks.
The warning message does the right thing. It only reminds that the nforce2_smbus driver had better not be loaded as there exists the potential conflict between ACPI and SMbus driver. thanks.
is there anything bad together with this message? for example, are there any devices that fail to work in 2,6,32, compared with 2.6.30/31?
Thanks for your responses. This problem exists in 2.6.30 and 2.6.31. This message don't block the system or other, but it's for have a cleanup boot log. Thanks.