Well I took the dive and upgraded to Slack 10 and compiled the 2.6.7 kernel. I want to thank Daone for the great post on how to do that!

But I am having some issues, video and sound, after searching I will try oss to configure sound but here is the weird thing.

Slack boots too the new kernel but without video???? The screen is blank, I can hear my laptop booting and I wait until it stops then log in. I can start KDE and my screen works fine????? I am on a laptop so my mouse is a little eratic. This happened when i tried Fedora Core 2.9, so i might have to reconfig the mouse.

I could not find any help searching about the video so any help would be great, also I left the old kernel so i can still use my laptop.

any help will be greatly appreciated.

Danielallan

The blank screen on 2.6 kernels is a fairly common mistake Go to the second page of the 2.6 compile sticky at the top of the Slackware forum. Or Here if you want a direct link.

For sound remember ALSA is the default in the 2.6 kernels, though you can use OSS I believe (have not tried myself)

Are you supposed to set those before you compile the kernel? I made the changes in my .config and rebooted but nothing changed. Do I have to do something else? Also I reconfiged my mouse but it is still eratic.

Thanks,

Danielallan

yes the config is used to compile the kernel. You can either type in the dark to get to X and compile from there or if you have a working kernel that does not blank boot to that.

OK Thanks, I still have my old kernel to boot to. I will recompile with the changes.

Thank you very much,

Danielallan