Should intelfb work on Gigabyte GA-GC203D (Intel 945G)?

Hello all,
another mainboard, another problem...

I have got this Gigabyte Mini-ITX Mainboard, which has the same specs as 
the Intel D945GCLF (i945G chipset) and looks like a twin brother of it 
(just with different-color heatsinks). However, while the Intel board 
works fine with the intelfb kernel driver, the Gigabyte one either 
freezes completely (as witnessed on a Gentoo linux with a 2.6.27.7 and a 
2.6.28.5 kernel) or at the very least hangs the modprobe command (as 
witnessed with a Knoppix 5.3 boot cd). Has anyone gotten this board to 
work with intelfb, or does anyone know whether it should work at all?

I also tried uvesafb, which kind of works, but does not enable panning 
(no matter which parameters I use, I always get "scrolling: redraw"). As 
the DirectFB application I try to run on this board needs panning, it 
fails on start. Does anyone know why uvesafb doesn't/can't enable 
panning on i956G graphics chips?

Thanks in advance for any new insight into the matter.

Greetings
Kasi Mir


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