Helmut Hullen <helmut@hullen.de> wrote:
>> with the new kernel 2.2.6 on Slackware 4.0. I might have had a the
>> wrong drivers but kde loads up fine.
>
> "new kernel"? Kernel 2.2.6 dates from April 16 1999.

It is about the newest kernel that still works with Slackware 4.0,
which is what the OP was talking about.
Furthermore, that version is from 2004, not 1999, and NO work at all
has been done anymore on the 2.2 kernel series since Jan 2005 (there
is a Release Candidate on kernel.org from that month).

I'm running 2.2.6 and Slw 4.0 too on my very old 486dx2/66, it just
doesn't have the RAM (and diskspace) for newer releases (max of 16 MB
of RAM and it only got a 540 MB disk) of Slackware/Kernel.
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