diff --git a/drivers/video/via/hw.c b/drivers/video/via/hw.c
index 8bdf80e270e2..8497727d66de 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/hw.c
@@ -1810,6 +1810,9 @@ static void hw_init(void)
 		break;
 	}
 
+	/* magic required on VX900 for correct modesetting on IGA1 */
+	via_write_reg_mask(VIACR, 0x45, 0x00, 0x01);
+
 	/* probably this should go to the scaling code one day */
 	via_write_reg_mask(VIACR, 0xFD, 0, 0x80); /* VX900 hw scale on IGA2 */
 	viafb_write_regx(scaling_parameters, ARRAY_SIZE(scaling_parameters));