Eric Lowe wrote:
> There's another clue though. I tried to run scanpci (always worked 
> before) and that caused my laptop to freeze up solid. So apparently it 
> isn't just X that is causing problems.

scanpci is just a standalone copy of Xorg's PCI bus probe code
(which is known to be wholly inappropriate, evil, and twisted,
  yet we have no other way to get the information needed in X,
  so it lives on, poking the PCI bus in dangerous ways behind the
  kernel's back).

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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