Also:
[The supposition I make below is wrong. The VT 8623 and CLE266_VGA are different. When I changed the PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8623 to PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CLE266_VGA in the struct, LB did not work.]
Search the archives. People have booted the ML with existing setups. That's probally why no ML directory was ever created. They just tweaked the M setup. You will have to go back and find what those tweaks were.
-- Richard A. Smith