I was getting identical symptoms to the original poster (blank screen, but system up) with an EPIA M10000 (CLE266) based thin client (ltsp booted). It could be worked round by specifying Option "NoAccel" Option "SwCursor" for the via driver but this seemed to give no noticeable improvement over simply using the vesa driver (which also worked fine). (SW cursor option necessary to avoid a block cursor and occasional screen corruption).
Anyway, as soon as xserver-xorg-video-via 1:0.2.1-5 appeared in sid I gave it a go and the system is working much more smoothly now neither option need be specified. Thanks for getting this out there; I just hope it can make it into etch :^) Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]