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I found what my problem was: X was freezing while probing for my
videocard (S3 Trio3D). I still don't know why it would work properly
with 2.2.14, though.
I had to specify the videochip, ramdac and clockchip in XF86Config to
work around it.
Now everything works. Yay!
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