Asus A7V8X Motherboard Onboard Graphics

[Benno Goedhart]

Martin Halford wrote:
> Benno Goedhart wrote:
> 
>> Still no solution? We've ordered three systems with this motherboard, 
>> and I sure would like to have the onboard graphics working.
>>
>> I  know the VESA driver does the job, but I can't use 85Hz at 
>> 1600x1200 with this card, it can do, however, 85Hz at 1280x1024. But I 
>> don't want to use that on my 21" CRT.
>>
>> On VIA's site there are drivers for Red Hat 8 en 9, and Mandrake, but 
>> not for Fedora. There has to be a way to use this graphics chipset. I 
>> have heard it is some kind of S3 Savage chipset.
> 
> 
> Martin Ewing came up with a couple of suggestions.  The first was a link 
> to Alan Cox's site http://people.redhat.com/alan/ where there are files 
> you can place in
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/via_dri.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o
> 
> You then hand edit /etc/X11/XF86Config to specify "via" as the driver 
> instead of "vesa".
> 
> I have to say that this did not seem to work for me?
> 
> The second suggestion was to install the latest update to 2.4.22 Release 
>      1.2166.nptl.  Again, this does not seem to have worked for me, but 
> not being an 'expert' there may be something I've done wrong or not done?
> 
> Let me know if you manage to solve?

Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow at work.