Thanks. It's odd to hear that it breaks totally for you but works for another with the same IGP. I'm nearing despair. However I just found something suspicious in the syslog you attached:
[ 32.198735] VIA Graphics Intergration Chipset framebuffer 2.4 initializing
[ 32.255733] __ratelimit: 3 callbacks suppressed
[ 32.255737] vmap allocation for size 134221824 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[ 32.255742] ioremap failed
[ 32.255770] viafb: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12
This means that viafb itself refuses to work as it can't map the framebuffer (128MB, is this correct?). I'm really puzzled how a module that itself refuses to do anything can cause any harm to (escpecially freeze) your machine.
So the best I can suggest as the next step would be to add the boot option "vmalloc=268435456" to reserve 256MB for remapping and see whether the behaviour of 2.6.33 changes, meaning
(a) whether the warning in the syslog vanishes (the different kernel version shouldn't make a difference but you can check if you like)
(b) whether viafb still freezes your PC
Thanks. It's odd to hear that it breaks totally for you but works for another with the same IGP. I'm nearing despair. However I just found something suspicious in the syslog you attached:
[ 32.198735] VIA Graphics Intergration Chipset framebuffer 2.4 initializing
[ 32.255733] __ratelimit: 3 callbacks suppressed
[ 32.255737] vmap allocation for size 134221824 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[ 32.255742] ioremap failed
[ 32.255770] viafb: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -12
This means that viafb itself refuses to work as it can't map the framebuffer (128MB, is this correct?). I'm really puzzled how a module that itself refuses to do anything can cause any harm to (escpecially freeze) your machine.
So the best I can suggest as the next step would be to add the boot option "vmalloc=268435456" to reserve 256MB for remapping and see whether the behaviour of 2.6.33 changes, meaning
(a) whether the warning in the syslog vanishes (the different kernel version shouldn't make a difference but you can check if you like)
(b) whether viafb still freezes your PC