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Your post is short on detail, but what you describe sounds like the sort of problem that occurs with drivers for some Intel graphics chipsets.
This thread provides details:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-again-742820/
To help further requires more information:
What version of Slackware are you running?
What is your graphics? (Look at the output of 'lspci')
What Intel driver are you using? (Look at the output of 'ls /var/log/packages | grep intel')
Be warned, the best fix will probably be to upgrade to the latest Intel 2.9.0 driver and the latest stable kernel 2.6.31.4. This will be a challenging task for a noob, but you installed Slackware knowing this could happen and can embrace this, right? :-D
As an alternative, you could try specifying the vesa driver for your graphics in xorg.conf. This will provide stability, but will be a little sluggish and not allow for some eye candy features.