CentOS - Jan 2006 - correct driver for X

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

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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I found the following page for the k8m800 motherboard.
Everything I have found from via is sub par to say the least.
It has a via_drv.o file that "seems" to do something. (cant see as
I'm
home).

hope this helps someone else...

http://leenooks.com/233

jerry
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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
/>/
/>