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Have you tried installing the packages from testing? The 2.6.38 kernel has fixes for issues with some nvidia cards.

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Have you tried installing the packages from testing?

No I have not. I running the stock generic kernel.

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2.6.37.6=cliff1

I only modified a very few things, cpu type, and didn't compile all the drivers for devices I don't have.

I have used linux mostly Mandriva, for 8 years. I have been using Slack for about a year now, as my main system for 6 months. Still learning lots.

Is there a how to somewhere that would show me how to use testing?

to install from testing edit this line in /etc/slacpkag/slackpkg.conf

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PRIORITY=( patches %PKGMAIN extra testing pasture )

to this

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PRIORITY=( patches testing %PKGMAIN extra pasture )

then as root run
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-new
lilo
then reboot
This will also install nouveau if you want to try it. If you want to use nvida's driver then you will have to reinstall it again against the new kernel, might have to move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way for nouveau to work.

The other option is to download just the packages you want from a mirror (kernel, kernel modules, what ever else) cd to the directory that the packages are downloaded to, then as root run pkgtool and select the current directory to install from.

Thank-you, I'll look into it...