No problems. If anyone else reads this, and want a quick fix for 13.37 you can follow the following procedure:

(put in installation cd, don't run setup)
mount /dev/sda2 /hello # note use whatever slackware is installed,

rm -f /hello/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
rm -f /hello/lib/modules/2.6.37.6-smp/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko

depending if you use smp kernel or not.

After you remove the driver you'll have to boot from LILO to see if it works, but in order to get the machine booted and remove the driver or blacklist it, you'll have to boot with the install disk since you are unable to boot from the hard drive.

Long story short, I attempted to reinstall because I read somewhere that changing from KDE to xfce may help. Except this time, when trying to configure LILO I got the message:
"Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Warning: Video adapter does not support VESA BIOS extensions needed for display of 256 colors. Boot loader will fall back to TEXT only operation
Fatal: open /dev/sdb1: No such device or address"

I can look up how to install it manually, but I figured this error message may offer new information/tell us something we already know.

This is quite exciting. After following slacktroll's instructions, I was able to log into root. What reading would you recommend I do so I can figure out how to get my GUI working.

I got that a couple of times during various installs... just boot back into the rescue and rerun lilo

Nothing worong with the advice here, except ithe kernel version is constantly changing, and removing driver files without removing the package can affect troubleshooting down the road. Chrooting and just uninstalling the driver with removepkg is just a cleaner way to accomplish the same goal without potentially muddying the waters down the road. It would be nice if the nouveau driver would just go back to /extra.

use the command xwconfig to change Windowmanager.
use startx to start GUI.

:-)

well /var/log/packages/xf86-video-nouveau-* does'nt include the nouveau.ko driver. And AFAIK xorg in 13.37 does not load that driver while starting X at ALL if the kernel module is not loaded / builtin

Read the entire thread, see his info,. he mentions somewhere that machine hangs when initalising DRM. DRM is NOT the xf86-video-nouveau driver at all. The kernel driven graphic driver is the problem, not the xorg driver.

TS: you could have installed this package:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...t-noarch-1.txt

basicly does the same thing as you did manual to blacklist it in i /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf :P

but removing the module is maybe better practice :P your choice!

Of course slacktroll meant to say "xwmconfig"

Slightly off-topic:
My old laptop also can't boot from pendrives, but I've found a great solution for this. Download and burn Plop Boot Manager to a CD and this might be the last time you'll have to waste money on CDs/DVDs.

I remember re-installing Slackware on old hardware - the installation stopped at random times. I could never complete installing all packages at one go.

I later found out that it was due to overheating of CPU (due to accumulated dust between CPU fan and heatsink). As all the packages are installed, the CPU temperature was too high and it caused the installation process to stop abruptly.

Opening another terminal to query the CPU temperature confirmed for me that the CPU is working near the upper limit of temperature even before the setup process was started.

I hope you will check the CPU temp as one of the possible causes of failed installation.

I have a similar laptop, and it is close to death.

The first thing I would do is boot the UBCD and run memtest86+, HDD diagnostics (SMART), Video Memory Stress Test.

The DVD Burner for it failed quickly, so don't trust it to burn good disks, make sure to check the burned disk using:

or whatever other way you have to check that the disk is burned properly.