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Originally Posted by allend
Apparently that netbook uses an Intel GMA3150 for graphics. That device is supported by xf86-video-intel-2.10.0 and later. I suggest that you try upgrading to slackware-current. You will be so glad you did!
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Well, I am in the process of giving this a try, using the 5/4/2010 current snapshot. I think there's a problem with the kernel. I've got the system installed, my home directory created, and am attempting to rsync the contents of my home directory to this machine from a workstation on my ethernet. What I'm seeing is that files transfer for awhile, then stop for a long while, then resume transferring and the process repeats. Running 'top' on the target machine (the Toshiba netbook), I see that periodically (frequently), top hangs, doesn't refresh. If I poke the machine in some way, such as hitting ctrl, or touching the touchpad, top immediately refreshes and the transfers resume (I've got the two machines in the same room, so I can see the screen of the sending machine). After a time, things deteriorated on the Toshiba to the point where it stopped talking to the ethernet, was unresponsive to ctrl-alt-fn, but top would update if I typed ctrl.
I've done a lot of OS scheduler work in my career, and I think this is a scheduler problem, or a bad interaction between the scheduler and this machine. Ubuntu 10.04 did *not* exhibit this problem and uses a somewhat earlier kernel (2.6.32), so if I'm right about this, they broke something after 2.6.32.
The good news is that X works, as you thought it would. But the system is not usable at this point. I'm going to have to re-install Ubuntu, and just avoid suspending, which doesn't work. Hopefully, this will serve until Slackware 13.1 is released (with a fix for this problem).
Again, thanks for your trying to help, even though this didn't work out.
/Don