Tim:
I would imagine that simply stopping kudzu from being run at start-up would be sufficient. You may want it, later on, to manually configure later-added hardware.
Kevac Marko:
It's not sufficient. Because kudzu is somehow starting not only when it should start, but also just before login screen and it freezes laptop anyway.
Did you turn off the kudzu service from running in runlevel 3 *AND* 5?
But if it runs, and you've got it disabled, that sounds like a problem that will need to get fixed for other people, as well.