Does intel845GL graphics work at all with 9.0?

Now I have to make a presentation of SUSE that is to be shown tomorrow, and naturally, I wanted to use a laptop with SUSE. So, our sales gave me this brand new Dell Inspiron 1100 with Intel 845GL onboard graphics. And at this point, instead of working on the presentation, I'm reading fsking docs from intel and trying to configure the damn graphics for more than the embarrassing 640x480x16 bits, the only mode that came up. I'm way pissed... What? am I gonna have to use windows? :-O nooo... help me! 9.0 with all updates.