How to troubleshoot system freeze-ups?

[rokytnji]

If it was me. I'd roll with the vesa driver 1st to see if freezes went away.
Like I did with testing today.

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.ph...5&start=30

Then move on to installing proprietary drivers for my video card/chip.
Posting from the laptop in that thread as I reload backed up data through usb 1.1.
I know on some of my boxes. The nouveau driver and newer kernels don't play well with the newer xorg. Mine would not freeze as much as scramble the whole screen. So I made my own
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to run till I got the proprietary nvidia driver for my desktop.
My pastebin file I keep handy now.
http://pastebin.com/J7U0Hizw

Different distro, different problem, different hardware. So that xorg.conf is my personal.
Use at your own risk. If not sure. Don't use it.