Re: ATI Radeon 7500 & Woody - Unknown Chipset (0x5157)

[Jonathan Schmitt <other.list@detla.de>]

Hallo,

>For some reason, the board isn't being recognized when I 'startx'.
>In particular, this:
>
>    (II) ATI unknown chipset (0x5157)
>
>and this:
>
>    (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected

You could ease up error detection by providing the complete /var/log/
XFree86.0.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4).

>Though I couldn't find a driver that looked useful using 'modconf', I
>manually 'modprobe'd
>
>        /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o

This won't be solving Your problem, it's only related to the console 
framebuffer device.
   js

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