I have no problems at all running Fedora 5.
However when I load a fresh version of Fedora 6 from CD or do an upgrade from the internet
X fails.

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device 5000
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M800CE Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dbffffff
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400AM(F) Motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9400 [size=4]
I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=4]
I/O ports at a000 [size=16]
I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at ac00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Mainboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VT600 Motherboard
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VAX Onboard Audio (Realtek ALC650)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
I/O ports at bc00 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at de001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3344 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device d000
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at dd000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [70] AGP version 3.0

Has anyone come across this problem.

Tks

Please describe what Video hardware you're using. Ati, Nvidia or other? In this case it would be possible to help you.

VIA P4M800 - Delivering Flexibility for the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Platform

Optimized to deliver a great Hi-Def™ visual experience when playing digital video content, the VIA P4M800 IGP chipset delivers a highly integrated solution for value desktop PC designs.

The VIA UniChrome P4M800 chipset features the VIA UniChrome™ 2D/3D graphics core with MPEG-2 acceleration and DuoView™ technology for excellent multimedia performance and complete flexibility on the desktop.

The VIA P4M800 also integrates support for 800MHz FSB and high performance DDR 400 memory modules. The P4M800 also features an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 8X controller, and the high speed Ultra V-Link interface for combination with VIA's feature-packed VT8237R Plus South Bridge.

Graphics Core VIA UniChrome™ 2D/3D graphics core
Video Acceleration Yes
Dual Monitor Support Yes

Found this article http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=549457
and used it to load the VIA Unichrome driver
This was the crucial section
afterwards u can download the rpms for via unichrome pro igp from:
http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC6/i386/
download only these rpms:
xorg-x11-drv-via-0.2.1.svn295-1.fc6.i386.rpm
mesa-libGL-6.5.2-6.fc6.ucr.6.i386.rpm
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-6.fc6.ucr.6.i386.rpm

install these rpms like:
As root user "#" prompt:
Code:

~#rpm -Uvh foobar.rpm

or by double clicking on the rpm file in Fedora.
Now again edit ur /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the Section "Device" as follows using nano editor as earlier:
Code: