First question, why Slackware 8.0? Is that all you have access to? Slackware 8.1 fixed a lot of little annoyances with Slackware 8.0. The first of which is the aforementioned speakup.i kernel being compiled as SMP. The problem is that the modules supplied with Slackware are compiled for a single processor system and the kernel is SMP. This is a bad thing in general. In order to get any use out of the modules, they must be replaced with the smp modules from the contrib CD. I never compile for SMP support because I've had odd behavior from it. Another thing about Slackware 8.0 was that its rc.modules script loads a lot of modules which really don't need to be loaded if you have the options set up for automatic loading of modules. The rc.modules script in Slackware 8.1 will only load a few modules by default.
