After a whole day off tackling this, i have found no solution. A am a bit new to linux but after installing Slack 10 on my laptop, getting sound and video to work with acceleration i felt confident i can get it to work on my main rig. Almost 12 hours past of constant thread searching, testing, compiling etc, and still, i get no success. My main issue is getting the linux ATi driver to install, which i have browsed around the many threads here, and at other sites about how to install, and what to do. Ive done alot of them, nothing worked. Then i got the idea to 'learn' how to build/compile/install a new kernel, i thought this would help my problem with my ATi drivers not working. I ran through a few kernel compile guides, including the ones here, nothing worked. Sometimes i got a blank screen, sometimes it would accually boot, but with just a cursor, i could login, startx but i couldnt see what i was doing. So then i read around some more, found the /testing kernel on the slackware cd, i gave that a try along with the readme. It booted, i could see everything, seemed to lockup a few times, it gave alot of sata_errors, though it booted. I had basicly no device driver support, probaly because it was just to test, hence the name. So now it all comes down to getting a new kernel to get the ATi driver to work, correct? The 2.4.26 kernel that comes standard with slack 10 has perfect driver support for everything on my computer, so im thinking to use 'make oldconfig' and try to use it on the 2.6.7 config, would that work? I would also have to enable agp acceleration for nforce 2 and a few other things in the kernel config, right? Once all thats done i should be able to follow the ATi Driver and Kernel 2.6.7 Installation guide, and hopefully that will work.

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.666ghz
3x256 PC 2100 in/Dual Channel
ATi Radeon 9800 PRO
ABIT NF7-S Rev3
Western Digital 7200rpm 60gb on IDE
Seagate 7200rpm 80gb on SATA
Sound Blaster Live! Value

Does anyone have any advice for me? Anything would be highly appriciated. Thanks loads in advance!

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Are you using kernel 2.6.7 from the second cd? I can't help you with the kernel building, I have not been able to compile kernel. I am just using the straight kernel install. If you installed the kernel, source, modules, alsa driver, and did the changes needed in lilo, you should be boot into X windows. I haven't done it yet myself, but from what I have read. You should be able to do the current ati driver install. According to the ATI you have to write a line to your fstab (detailed on ati's driver download page). reboot your linux and you be good. I am planning to do this myself tomorrow. I will feed back my results

this is what I ended up doing

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=257912