nVidia and xorg and hp1020 done
I have a GeForce 8600 GTS video card. Grabbing the latest nVidia drivers (right now, 169.12) and following nVidia’s instructions worked fine. I’d never let nVidia’s installer autoconfigure xorg for me, but I gave it a shot this time, and it turned out well. It left the default resolutions at 1024×768, but it was easy enough to go through xorg.conf and add 1600×1200. After adding Option "nologo", video was done. Oh, and because I am pedantic, I changed the device identifier to “GeForce8600GTS” from whatever the Slackware installer had called it.
I have a Logitech wireless USB mouse. Mousewheel scrolling didn’t work out of the box, but changing the protocol to “IMPS/2″ and addingOption "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" fixed that.
I used GIMP to make a grub splash image. It looks pretty rough when stretched to fit the 20 inch monitor, but my rudimentary graphics skills aren’t up to making something pretty. Anyway, it works with the grub from System Rescue CD.
Installing the driver for the HP 1020 went just as smoothly as before.
That’s enough tinkering with Slackware for today. Now I’ll switch to installing the ridiculous number of Firefox extensions I use.