Thats my site btw, everything works fine with a 2.4 and 2.6 kernel including the modem and touchpad. The general acpi functions work but suspend doesn't.

If its a synaptics you need to build evdev ( I think ) into the kernel for the touchpad to work with the synaptics driver.

Website needs updating because I'm back with slack 10.1 now.

For those interested:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/0...id=184&tid=106

Slack runs great on my Dell Inspiron 5000 (600GT). After a little tweaking (and help from these forums) I have the touchpad, wireless, sound, ACPI, and DRI running fine. I'm not sure if the modem works or not, I've never used it, and I've never tried suspend either. DVD's play fine, Burns CD's fine, and ALMOST plays Unreal Tournament (a shortcomming of the graphics chip, not the OS)
Current specs:

P3 600, 512MB pc100, 8MB Ati Rage Mobility-P, 40GB HDD, 16x8x4x24 DVD/CDRW combo, ESS Maestro 1, Microsoft MN-520 802.11b, and a Netgear FA511 NIC.

Everything worked out of the box.

I have a HP-Compaq nx9005:Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, 512 MB RAM, Mobility Radeon(R320), etc..

I am running a heavily customized Slackware 10.1, although simply using 10.1 with a little config would do as well. Here are my observations:
1) The Winmodem is a problem... Maybe I could set it up if I had some time, but that is one of a few reasons I keep WinXP that came with the notebook.
2) ATI graphics card is now OK with Xorg, but needs some configuration. I think normal Xorg drivers are better than the ones ATI offers.
3) Suspend features. It worked for only one installation, but unfortunately I messed it up trying to learn more about Linux. I don't know what I do wrong, but OS won't come back after suspend.
4) Touchpad. Once configured, it has some extras which i didn't find in Windows(neither I care, actually ) You can use your two fingers as a middle button, three fingers as left click, things like scrolling are OK too..
5) Battery management is perfect! I have KDE, Fluxbox and Windowmaker as windowmanagers/DE's. When plugged in, I use KDE, and when running on battery, I switch to one of the others. I also use powersaved. At least 20% more battery life than working under Windows...