Maybe some variant of Acer chip which has the base address in a different place or something. It's been a long time but I think that's why I put the printf in there, because people were having that problem. sorry mds Mark Studebaker wrote: > Note: forwarded message attached. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > i2c-ali15x3 on hp omnibook xe3 > From: > Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> > Date: > Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:41:47 +0100 > To: > phil at netroedge.com, frodol at dds.nl, mdsxyz123 at yahoo.com, kernel list > <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org> > > > Hi! > > Apparently bios failed to initialize ali properly; I tried to force > address manually, but I get: > > i2c-ali15x3.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > ali15x3 smbus 00:06.0: forcing ISA address 0x0200 > ali15x3 smbus 00:06.0: force address failed - not supported? > ali15x3 smbus 00:06.0: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted. > > Any ideas what more to try? > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1647 Northbridge > [MAGiK 1 / MobileMAGiK 1] (rev 04) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] PCI to AGP Controller > 00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 03) > 00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 > 00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 > 00:06.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA > Bridge [Aladdin IV] > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 > (rev 12) > 00:08.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology ESS Modem (rev 12) > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c3) > 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 > Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP > (rev 63) > > [Oops, do we have right PCI device? Should not it be 00:07.0?!] > > Pavel