diff --git a/drivers/video/via/hw.c b/drivers/video/via/hw.c
index d5aaca9cfa7e..8bdf80e270e2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/hw.c
@@ -1811,6 +1811,7 @@ static void hw_init(void)
 	}
 
 	/* 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));
 
 	/* Fill VPIT Parameters */