Hey all, I installed Zenwalk 3.0 (2.6.17.11) yesterday after fiddling with a few other popular distributions and they all seem to have horrible performance / detection problems with my onboard graphics card. For instance the game engine Cube is only getting about 6fps, while my laptop of much much older descent gets around 50-60, the same goes with xscreensaver where many of them (not even that demanding recieve a mere 10-12fps.

Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UniChrome Pro IGP (rev 01)

What I've tried:
I'll mentioned I'm still a newb and this is my first distro, so I've really tried everything I could think of up to this point.

- First I tried to run xorgconfig to setup the card, unfortunetly if I chose 16bit or 24bit xorg wouldn't launch and it would claim that the VGA driver didn't support it.

- Next I tried the obvious, I tried to google for some existing drivers, I managed to find a giant table of video cards and the drivers they used under Linux, I found mine in the list and it said it used the Via driver, but after changing the Driver "" line in the xorg.conf it wouldn't launch.

- And lastly before coming to this forum, I tried to find assistance on the freenode server in #Linux as well as #Zenwalk, but I couldn't find help.

Hardware Information:
Processor: 2.4ghz Intel Celeron / 533mhz FSB
RAM: 768mb DDR
Graphics Card: Intergrated S3 Unichrome 2D/3D AGP Graphics (64mb)
Motherboard: ASRock P4VM800

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for any replies.

The error messages would be useful here...

I paniced after I got them, When I saw that X wouldn't launch and I was stuck in a CLI for the first time I tried desperately to edit the xorg.conf back (I eventually found out how with Vim). So I don't know the error messages unless they were logged somewhere? : o

Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Ah thanks Bulliver, I posted the full log at pastebin since it was quite large for this thread.

*ttp://pastebin.com/797335

Thanks again for any help anyone can give me, it won't me post the url until I have 3 posts, so if you could replace the * with the h that'd be great.

Clickable if someone else wants a look:
http://pastebin.com/797335

Vyle:

Am I missing something? There are no errors in that log! However, you are using the "vesa" driver there, not the "via" driver. Change the "Driver" line in the "Device" section to "via" and try again. If it errors out post the xorg log again, however, you do not need to post the whole thing. Any errors will be prefixed with "(EE)" and they should be right at the bottom of the log. Just paste the error lines with a few extra lines for context ie: the bottom 20 or so...

Er, this is probably a silly question but I don't know how to save a copy of the xorg.conf log without access to X, which is why I changed xorg.conf back to vesa in the first place.

Do I just open the log in vim and then save it to a different place? : o