Meaning that I have to downgrade KDE to 3.5.* ?

You should be able to run KDE4 on Xserver 1.5 without any problems.

So, if I take the xorg packages from the 12.2 version, for example, everything should be fine?

I honestly can't comment on how to downgrade Xorg, since I've not done it, but I can tell you that it is necessary for using fglrx 9.3.

Adam

I didn't suggest doing this. I'm not sure if you downgraded kernel headers or not? I would have left standard package alone. Then in a subdirectory where your user has rights, I would have downloaded and installed the 2.6.27.31 kernel and did a custom build. After that I added a line to grub for the extra kernel.

If this is true I think it would be too much of a pain and I would either stick with 12.2 with fglrx, or stick with open source drivers with slackware 13. But 3D with your (and even my) card is still evolving with open source drivers. But, openarena works. Eduke32 has some graphic glitches as does sdlquake2. Doom3 with open source drivers does not work yet.

But I would try 9.3 with slackware 13 a bit before giving up.

I have played doom3 with the open source drivers on an x850 and x1900 using the arb render path. It's not as pretty as the arb2 render path, but it's still usable.

Adam

Attached is my config.txt. I had to add the .txt suffix to post but you'll need to move it to .config in the subdirectory where you will build 2.6.27.31. Read the readme in the 2.6.27.31 subdirectory to learn how to compile.

You'll configure, either with make menuconfig or make xconfig.

You'll need to change my entries for your hardware. Pay special attention to IDE, SCSI, and SATA, and file systems (ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs) or you will get kernel panic when rebooting.
Edit: And double check the processor is set to what you want. I might have it set to Athlon64.

If you have huge kernel running,
as root
lspci > lspci.txt

Also do dmesg > dmesg.txt and lsmod > lsmod.txt

Then look through those files to see which sound cards, sata, ide, etc., things are running. These can help guide your kernel configuration option settings.

As user you would do: make and as root do: make modules_install

If you use grub, do NOT do: make install for kernel. Instead just move kernel from
linux-2.6.27.31/arch/x86/boot/bzimage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.31 and
linux-2.6.27.31/System.map to /boot/System.map-2.6.27.31
and then alter /boot/grub/menu.lst. I don't use LILO and can't help you with that.

Have the boot dvd ready to recover from kernel panic and know how to mount drives ahead of time.

Attached Files

config-2.6.27.31.txt (50.7 KB, 8 views)

@forum1793:
I have downgraded everything that was related to the kernel: headers, source, default modules, etc.

The downgrade went smooth, without any problems.

It was a simple upgradepkg package1%package2 for every package.

LE:
I'll try recompiling the kernel. I found the previous config in /boot, but I did not had the time to try it. I'll be able to do so on Monday/Tuesday.

I'm comfortable with mounting drives and lilo, so that won't be an issue.

This might give you problems because all the rest of the slackware-13.0 release was compiled against the -13.0 kernel headers and everything you compile will be compiled against the earlier kernel headers.

But you're already there so try it out and let us know how it works. Probably can't really hurt you and will only cost a little time.