Piix4_smbus comes with alsa.tcz?

[bkm]

Hello all,

Hoping you can help me here. I can't find anything on this module in the "book" and very little about here in searching the forum.

I installed alsa on a laptop to get sound going. After the alsa install, the boot listing always gives a warning about Piix4_smbus module may erase serial rom, module not loaded.

While it is completely safe since the module does not load, I still wanted to know if there is a way to edit something so it never tries to load the module in the first place. This only happens after the installation of the alsa extension, so I am thinking that somehow impacted the way the system boots and it wants to load this Piix4_smbus module.

Is there a way for me to edit this out of the booting sequence? If so where in the book might I find more details about how to go about this?

Thanks in advance. You folks have been wonderful so far.

BKM

[gerald_clark]

Boot with 'showapps pause' boot codes and see what extension is causing this.

[bkm]

The message shows up after that last application is listed. Regardless of how many I add, it always comes at the end.

It started showing up immediately after I loaded the alsa exntension.

BKM

[gerald_clark]

Show us your bootsync.sh and bootlocal.sh

[bkm]

bootlocal.sh

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start
# put other system startup commands here
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bootsync.sh

#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here, the boot process will wait until they complete
# Use bootlocal.sh for system startup commands that can run in background
# and therefore not slow down the boot process
/usr/bin/sethostname box
/opt/bootlocal.sh &
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There are my current bootlocal.sh and bootsync.sh listings. Nothing seems out of the ordinary.

BKM

[coreplayer2]

/usr/local/etc/init.d/alsasound start   is probably not required in tc-5.x

The info file indicates the use of sudo prior to the above command if used and used with the sleep ? command

lots of options here

[bkm]

Yeah, but I am not using TC v5.x

I am having to use TC v4.7.6 in order to get the ham radio related extensions to work. They are not available in the 5.x versions.

I am really just interested in where to find the script that I can edit out the Pii4x_smbus load command. The system works just fine without the module loaded and I would rather not have the bright white alert show up during boot.

Any ideas?

BKM

[curaga]

You can blacklist the module, by adding the bootcode "blacklist=piix4_smbus", without quotes.