[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

[H. A. Story]

Well,  I finally got my system back online.  Found out somethings. 

make mrproper deletes a lot of stuff.
upgradepkg on glib*.tgz is  DANGEROUS!!!!!  It kill ls and everything.

Doing the upgrade from disk 1.  If you do the quick format files are not 
removed.  And you end up with a nice mix.

Kernel compiling will put you to sleep.

A full system backup to a tar or gz file may not help you.  I had run a 
backup before hand. I couldn't gunzip the file and it was too large 
after booting from the distro CD.  Seems the distro bare.i doesn't like 
+2 Gigs files.

When you screw up bad.  Having another image in lilo doesn't help. 

My problem now seems to be sound and video.  I can't get ATI Radeon 9200 
to work ideally.  No errors during boot.   I can't seem to get the sound 
to work.  And I would like to get kernel 2.6.## loaded and working.

Anyone else had problems like this?  I could take the easy way out and 
changed distro, but don't think that would be fun either.
Any suggestions on sound?  Notice 2 sound cards. When adding Ensoniq 
137? the kernel doesn't compile.

Output of lspci00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 
[KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
(rev 74)
00:13.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
9200 SE] (rev 01)

Adrin