Okay... this is a big problem for me and I don't know where to start:

I installed Slackware 8.0 yesterday and everything was fine until tonight. I have installed Slackware 7.1 on this machine, as well as SuSE 7.2.. both of them worked fine.

1. Eight times out of ten, when I shut down X, my system hangs and I can't even Ctl-Alt-Del. Ctl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work, either. I have to turn the machine off. It doesn't matter which interface I use... Gnome, KDE, Blackbox... it must be the server.

2. I get this error when I try to 'make config'. Or any other 'config' for that matter:

.config:1: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

What does this mean?? I did recompile my kernel, but I only did it so that I would have reiserfs support. I didn't touch anything else... the kernel seems to work fine. (except I wasn't having these problems before).

I did convert all of my partitions except for / to reiserfs. Is there a problem with the version of reiserfs that comes with Slack 8.0? Somehow, I doubt this would be causing these problems.

Anyone??

nevermind about the 'make config' ... I don't know what was going on with that, or why I didn't do this before, but... I copied the original source tree back into /usr/src and now it works...

BUT... I have this X problem. And now I am realizing that sometimes X won't start at all.... I have 128MB of RAM. 1.2Ghz Athlon. NVidia TNT2 video card... maybe the video card has something to do with it??? Or my X configuration... I'm not sure what to look for. I don't know much about X... otherwise everything runs fine... just some problems starting and stopping the X server...