small addition :

This problem started a week ago with a modified kernel with
IP-firewalling, IP-aliasing & IRLPT enabled.
I reported a bug in the bugs forum that if no values were set for IP-information in config.ini and dhcp was set to 0,
the problem would occur. If they were set properly, the display would stay correct after soft reboot. Since then I only edited drivers/char/empeg_ir.c. The constant display-garbling after soft reboots started around the time I had used empeglogo.
I will try to install a custom kernel again and see what happens.

Frank van Gestel