[Openchrome-users] Unknown Card IDs Message

[James Simmons]

> 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 <jsimmons at infradead.org> 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:
> 
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> 
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