Neutrino install works fine from the M9 CD on an ECS-M3 motherboard
Graphics setup works - select i830 driver, 1280x1024, 60Hz. all good.
[Also tried using gma9xx with similar results]

With startup-bios, all is well.

However, if I use startup-apic and pci-bios-v2:

On reboot, screen goes black.

System is not dead though...
If I telnet in, I can see this from sloginfo:

Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: init...
Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: initialized.
Mar 19 17:04:40    1     8     0 phfont.so: '/dev/phfont[<32|64>]' server installed.
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 VGA primary : bus 0x0 dev/func 0x10
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 Found 1 PCI/AGP display devices
Mar 19 17:04:40    6     8     0 pci_init: found PCI device 8086:2772
Mar 19 17:04:42    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:42    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:43    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:43    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:44    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:44    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:45    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:45    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
Mar 19 17:04:46    2     8     0 MsgReceive: Connection timed out
[lots more of this message]

So it looks like something is not quite right...

The log with the gma9xx driver is:

Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: init...
Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: initialized.
Mar 19 17:11:26    1     8     0 phfont.so: '/dev/phfont[<32|64>]' server installed.
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 VGA primary : bus 0x0 dev/func 0x10
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 Found 1 PCI/AGP display devices
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 pci_init: found PCI device 8086:2772
Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 Could not open config file "": No such file or directory

Mar 19 17:11:26    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038
Mar 19 17:11:27    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038
Mar 19 17:11:27    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038
Mar 19 17:11:28    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038
Mar 19 17:11:28    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038
Mar 19 17:11:29    6     8     0 MsgReceive IDLE 37fffc0 a8 a8 free = 4038