Try using 'su' in the command line, to switch to the root user after longing in as a normal user. On some systems root can not be logged into directly but must be logged into after logging into some other user.

It works! Thank you.

The problems existed both before and after I updated the kernel. When I updated the kernel it only fixed all of the other hardware problems. Which was very nice but not what I was looking for.

I just discovered another oddity, "Queens" renders fine but "Endgame" is missing the board and the shader ...

I am having trouble with 3D rendering on my integrated Intel GPU. (I think it is a 3000 something). For example many (but not all; for example Triangle, Speedmine or SBalls) of the 3D screen savers on XScreenSaver show up in black and white, as in only black and white. No grey-scale. Also Wings3D ...

Salix Mate is covered on Tuxradar - Podcast Season 4 Episode 11.

http://tuxradar.com/content/podcast-season-4-episode-11

This might be of interest: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3562
It is a more recent kernel, but I don't know if it is the one you want.

If you know how do to it from the command line, then just doing "su", and continuing as if you logged in as root would work, but I have no idea if that would be the suggested way to do it.

(Note that this post was made a an inexperienced person as may contain errors.)

With almost all laptops and quite a few keyboards having volume buttons, is there a good reason why we don't include xfce4-volumed be default on the xfce version? Having it there will make the volume buttons work on a fresh install, the experience just that much better.

I am wondering what is the best way for me to compile source code so that the end program can be seen in my package management.

I understand that I could just do "./configure && make && make install" and I think I could handle that, but that won't put it in sync with my package manager, will it ...

Could this get put onto the wiki?