Hi, James. It is a VL5, does that explain the original message? Is it a known issue? Thanks, Chris. <div class="gmail_quote">On 3 Jan 2013 20:13, "James Simmons" <<a href="mailto:jsimmons@infradead.org">jsimmons@infradead.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > James, > > Thanks for your email and apologies for the delay in replying. The video card is built into my 'inherited' NEC Powermate desktop PC and is the > 'system' video card, not a PCI or AGP one. Is it a Nec Powermate VL5 ? > lspci shows: > > VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01) > > The monitor I am using is an Acer AL1714 LCD (LCD 17" flatscreen) > > I'm not sure whether this is of any help, but if you can tell me how to get any other information, then I will gladly try it. If its the board that I think it is then it only have a VGA analog port. > Many thanks, > > Chris. > > > On 31 December 2012 18:40, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:jsimmons@infradead.org">jsimmons@infradead.org</a>> wrote: > > > Hi, all! > > > > I've just been doing an installation on a spare PC, and got the following message: > > > > (EE) Open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory. > > Normal > > > (EE) CHROME (0): Unknown card-IDs (7205|1631|D003), chipset: KM400/ KN400 > > Not normal. > > > Fulfilled via DRI at 19271680 > > Freed 19271680 (Pool 2) > > > > The message said to email this address. Does this help at all? > > Can you tell us the name of the device and what outputs you have? > By outputs I mean CRT, LVDS etc. > > > The installation I am using is Linux Minut Debian Edition (linuxmint-201204-xfce-dvd-32bit) > > > > Many thanks, > > Thank you. > > > > > -- > Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: > > <a href="http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/" target="_blank">http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/</a> > > </blockquote></div>