>Just out of curiosity does /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
>exist?

Yes. It is working now, the work around was to rebuild the kernel
without AGP support.
Thanks to Stephen Ma for the tip. (below, in case it helps somebody
else)

R.W.

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Roberto> I am installing NetBSD 1.6.1 + XFree86 for the first time on
Roberto> a Dell Lattitude laptop.

XFree86.0.log> (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum

Ummmm... This sounds a whole lot like the (slightly) infamous agp
bug. Try building a custom kernel with the agp driver disabled (which
isn't used at all by the ATI driver).

- S