Alistair John Strachan's most recent patch to abituguru3 fixes the issue for me. So I don't consider it a bug any more, though it might not make it into 2.6.31. But I don't think there's a reason to create a new bug report for it. I see that it would be best to isolate each bug to its own bug report so I will leave this message as my last. But hopefully my comments can help other Linux users with the Abit IP35 Pro XE motherboard to know that they have to pass the force=1 parameter to the abituguru3 modprobe to get it working.
Alistair John Strachan's most recent patch to abituguru3 fixes the issue for me. So I don't consider it a bug any more, though it might not make it into 2.6.31. But I don't think there's a reason to create a new bug report for it. I see that it would be best to isolate each bug to its own bug report so I will leave this message as my last. But hopefully my comments can help other Linux users with the Abit IP35 Pro XE motherboard to know that they have to pass the force=1 parameter to the abituguru3 modprobe to get it working.