I too am running RedHat 8.0 on an old machine the needs the vesa driver to run the graphics card. At least it told you that you needed the vesa driver. Mine recognized the card, but wouldn't work. It took me a couple hours to figure out that XFree86 4.x did not actually include the driver for my card, and I had to switch to vesa. One tip is that many of these old cards are not directly supported by XFree86 4.x, but if you downgrade to XFree86 3.x it may have the driver for your card. The nice thing about SuSE is that the installer will install 3.x if 4.x does not have the correct driver. You may want to try this. As for the lock ups, I have not had that problem but I would suggest looking through /var/log/XFree86.0.log and /var/log/messages to see if they give you any clues as to why your system is locking up. On an old machine you may also want to use a lighter window manager like Window Maker instead of KDE or Gnome.
It's not that old of a motherboard guys it's VT133 or VT266 Motherboard. Chances are that switching to X 3.36 will not help the situation.
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