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My system froze more often than not on start up. Usually during starting of X. I have tested probably all imaginable versions of vesa, openchrome and via drivers, patches to these and xorg.conf-files and modelines. The reason for my system freeze was /usr/sbin/NetworkManager that was called before gdm (X initialisation). The call to /usr/sbin/NetworkManager did not block but the system usually froze after a few seconds when the X server was just starting. Sometimes NetworkManager did not freeze the system and everything worked fine.

I replaced NetworkManager with Wicd. The instructions are at http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

This works for me at least.

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Just for those interested here is some other data on my configuration:

Suspend and hibernate do not work.

Wlan works fine. I followed the instructions in the thread "Setting up Wlan with wep encryption".

I downloaded and installed the new Via driver from http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action

I have 64 mb display memory enabled in my bios setup.

And finally my xorg.conf is as follows. The keyboard layout is for a Finnish keyboard. The mode 320x200 is used by the Commodore 64 emulator and Blue Max :)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
Option "XkbVariant" "oss"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Driver "via"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "LCDPort" "DFP_HIGHLOW"
Option "SWCursor" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "320x200"
Virtual 1280 800
EndSubSection
EndSection