VIA's support for their Unichrome chipsets on Linux is a little lacking. I got a system with one of these. It even had Linspire preinstalled, and running in vesa mode. There's a project for this, but from reading their site it looks they don't have the Unichrome Pro working well yet. http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/

You might try buying one in this case. Even most of the cheapest should give a significant improvement, provided that they have 3d support and working Linux drivers.

Jerry Geis wrote:

I have and new motherboard and trying to get X going. it starts at 800x600 and vesa driver...

I have tried via (I get not driver found) I have tried S3 I have tried savage

None of these work. I tried them all as I was getting conflicting information on the net about which driver it is. below is lspci -v

Any suggestions on what to try?

THanks, jerry

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7142 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [70] AGP version 3.0

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