Comment 6 for bug 64666

Booting with the default kernel 2.6.17 and checking loaded modules suggests the kernel has correctly loaded i810fb:

$ lsmod | grep fb
i810fb 33852 0
vgastate 10240 1 i810fb
agpgart 34888 4 drm,i810fb,intel_agp
fbcon 41504 0
tileblit 3840 1 fbcon
font 9344 1 fbcon
bitblit 7168 1 fbcon
vesafb 9244 0

So my question now is, is i810fb loaded from initrd or later?

I'm trying to detect whether it is actually available to use the GRUB kernel command-line options - if it isn't then it makes sense that the splash screen fails AND that any attempt to use "vga=791" results in the "...undefined mode number" error.