Hi.
I'm trying to upgrade my laptop installation of Slackware to the 2.6 kernel, but I'm having some problems with my graphics hardware. My graphics card is a Trident Cyberblade-XP. The logical choices in the kernel configuration lead to a kernel that, when I try to boot it, displays unnatural vertical lines that give me the impression that my monitor is slowly being destroyed. But I digress. Changing the settings in the Display part of the device drivers heading can lead to a frozen-screen-of-mess kernel or, in some cases, a kernel that boots up and works fine-- except for the fact that the screen is completely blank. I would appreciate any help or direction you can give in helping me solve this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I think you are trying to use the kernels frame buffer drivers. Compare this .config to yours;
http://abbottdavid.com/index5.html
For the kernel framebuffer you will see I use vesa or vesa-tng.
xorg comes with its own graphics driver, compare this xorg to yours:
http://abbottdavid.com/index4.html
Thats for a toshiba TE2000

Thanks for the reply. I tried compiling the kernel with graphics settings as similar to those as passoble, but still I get no display. My laptop is a Toshiba Tecra 8200, if that helps.

See if any of this helps, I had no problems;
http://www.abbottdavid.com/Tecra8200/