My Thanks to Andrea:
It turns out that I had no kernel support for HD controller.
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tj
* Andrea Magatti <magatz@xxxxxxxxx> [050905 09:03]:
> On Monday 05 September 2005 18:38, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I'm using the stock KDE installation on slackware 10.0.
> > This is a multiple partition machine and problems that I am
> > experiencing are not occuring on the RH 9.0 partiton.
> >
> > Frankly, I expect that this is more likely an X problem than
> > a KDE problem and if I am correct, then I would welcome pointers
> > to the appropriate ML or forum.
> >
> > kwinrc, xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log can be seen at
> > http://www.johnsons-web.com/demo/slack/. Other system config files and
> > dumps can be seen there, but are not current.
> >
> > Input devices are all USB, keyboard, free standing numeric keypad and
> > trackball.
> >
> > Symptoms are:
> > Frequent high level of hard drive activity, accompanied by loss of
> > system response to pointing device, kepad, and keyboard. Occurs for
> > both user and root.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Again, if I'm hollering help in the
> > wrong direction, feel free to point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks
> > tim
>
> Hi,
> looks like a kernel configuration problem, verify the kernel release used in
> RH, and then the one in Slack, and after that, the configuration used in both
> kernels. It's really probable that you are missing some option in the slack
> kernel config.
>
> By
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