Well, silly me, since I wrote the message away from home, I did some
obvious mistakes: yes, it is rpmforge and not freshrpm in the repo.
But the question still stands, is it "safe" to use it, or the official
statement is to stick with SL repo, if I dond't want my stability and
security compromised?

And yes, the network problem was caused by some router incident, who
has to be restarted from time to time... Cheap devices... So the
Attansic driver shiiped with the motherboard CD works fine on SL, with
the normal kernel, not tested yet with xenkernel.

Also NVIDIA works nice, since we are at drivers sections. Though in
KDE, when I try to laucnh an application, the bouncing mouse cursor
looks nasty. Also, the drawing of yakuake is ugly, I had to set the
animation time to zero.

About the beta, it could be gaim. I'll try to make another instalation
in a virtual machine to check that.

Thanks for clarifying the picture question too :)

Here's my lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller
Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC
Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce
7300 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
05:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
05:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 11)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)


/later: Oh, another installation is not necessary, I've just searched the
installation logs and I also found only gaim to have the beta word in
it's name. Maybe this, along with -el5 made be believe that it's a
RHEL5 beta package.
So, this was also cleared, thank you.