On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 21:26, Greg.Lehmann@xxxxxxxx wrote: > 2. login and try various stuff but logout hangs entire machine. The LCD > display goes black and then the top half stays black but the bottom half > goes a brilliant offwhite that fades from the edges to the centre of the > screen in roughly circular pattern (truncated across the middle by the > top half which is all black) until the bottom half is dull grey. I had a similar problem with my desktop at home. I think it was related to sound card problems? I think Gnome was hanging when trying to play the shutdown sound. The problem went away when I disabled the sound (I did get the sound working eventually) > > 3. touch pad moves mouse pointer but doesn't recognise taps or double > taps. You may have a Synaptics mouse pad. You'll need to install the drivers. See http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=954&sid=fa6523c759e52792013c9a445b0f5296