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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