Re DirectFB and the Intel 945GM Chip

The DirectFB driver for this card (intelfb) complains about the video mode not being set even though I've set it using the kernel parameters passed through grub:

   title Generic 2.6.21 with 945GM-21
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /bzImage945-21 root=/dev/hda3       video=intelfb:mode=1024x768-16@85,accel=1,hwcursor=1,vram=8

The parameters above are listed in the kernel's fb documentation (Documentation/fb/intelfb.txt).  Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?  

Agp Info:
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000

IntelFB Info:
intelfb: intelfb_init
intelfb: Framebuffer driver for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/915GM/945G/945GM chipsets
intelfb: Version 0.9.4
intelfb: intelfb_setup
intelfb: options: mode=1024x768-16@85,accel=1,hwcursor=1,vram=8
intelfb: intelfb_pci_register
intelfb: fb aperture: 0xd0000000/0x10000000, MMIO region: 0xeff00000/0x80000
intelfb: 00:02.0: Intel(R) 945GM, aperture size 256MB, stolen memory 7932kB
intelfb: fb: 0xd3012000(+ 0x3012)/0x800000 (0xfba12000)
intelfb: MMIO: 0xeff00000/0x80000 (0xff280000)
intelfb: ring buffer: 0xd3001000/0x10000 (0xfba01000)
intelfb: HW cursor: 0x37fe8000/0x1000 (0xfba11000) (offset 0x3011) (phys 0x37fe8000)
intelfb: options: vram = 8, accel = 1, hwcursor = 1, fixed = 0, noinit = 0
intelfb: options: mode = "1024x768-16@85"
intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ).  Disabling mode switching.
intelfb: Video mode must be programmed at boot time.
intelfb: cleanup

When I try this with a CRT instead of an LCD screen the kernel crashes before I can see anything.

Regards,

D.Hall

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