[ale] nforce smbus: error probing SMB1 and SMB2

[jrtroberts]

I am beginning to wonder if the issue is with grub2 and not with 
ubuntu.  I believe that with the 10.04 release of ubuntu grub2 was the 
chosen bootloader.  When I installed 9.04, which I believe uses grub 
legacy or grub1 as its default boot loader the error does not persist.  
I don't know enough about it to verify or test though.  Just noticed it 
was a comment on the bug report.

Greg Clifton wrote:
> Hello Joshua,
>
> I second the motion of contacting ASUS, I have found them to be pretty 
> responsive to any technical queries. Perhaps they have a beta or 
> custom BIOS that would solve the problem.
>
> I have a relatively new system at home with a single core Athlon 64 
> and a Nvidia graphics card running the latest Ubuntu 64bit w/ 4GB of 
> RAM that also won't hibernate; system acts like it is going to sleep 
> and then just reboots. I forget the exact make/model, MSI or something 
> cheaper ($50 for mobo & CPU @ Frys a year or so ago) so I think the 
> ACPI/AIPC issues are not restricted to just ASUS mobos.
>
> GC
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com 
> <mailto:ale at sixit.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Joshua,
>
>     Monday, June 14, 2010, 3:34:38 AM, you wrote:
>
>     > I have been working on a machine for a while now, trying to get it
>     > up and running with Ubuntu x86_64  10.04.
>     > ...  The motherboard model is:
>     > Asus P5N-VM WS/TW100-E5
>
>
>     > After Bios Post there is a pause then an
>     > error message:
>
>     > nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB1 and then something
>     > equivalent but
>     > nforce_smbus 0000:00:03.2: error probing SMB2  Not sure if the hex
>     > numbers are different, I can check later.
>     > (it might say nforce2, but I am not 100% on that)
>
>
>     I'm not sure this will help you or not...
>
>     I have the same error messages on my ASUS 1201N Eee PC running
>     Ubuntu 10.04 x64.  In my research, as limited as the information
>     is on this, I found this to be specific to ASUS + NVidia NForce2.
>      Most people that have this issue write that the error delays
>     booting an additional few seconds; no one has identified the same
>     issues as you that I saw.  Some others report that the SMB issue
>     is with ACPI and a few other NForce2-controlled functions,
>     including some boot-up USB issues.  Yet none that I saw had any
>     issues with video.  (For me, my 1201N won't hibernate...)
>
>     Of course, very few of them are running dual video cards and more
>     than 8GB RAM, so your problem could certainly be a result of the
>     error.  OTOH, going from BIOS 4.08 to 6.01 is a huge leap.  Have
>     you contacted ASUS about this problem, or tried interim BIOS updates?
>
>     Anyway,  perhaps this link will help:
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/575296
>
>     Cheers,
>     Robert~
>
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