No, I don;t have easy access which is why I'm happy someone else has the same problem. Bert, let me know if you can test this. Thanks, Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:36 AM, K. K. Subramaniam <<a href="mailto:subbukk@gmail.com">subbukk@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-family: 'FreeSans'; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wednesday 06 May 2009 01:56:16 am Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 05.05.2009, at 20:00, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > On the mac's they seemed to boot fine from the CD+USB but there was > > some sort of problem with the screen. I've attached a pic, has > > anyone else seen it? > > Looks a lot like what I reported for the Mac mini: > > <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03875.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03875.html</a> > > If I'm not mistaken the Macbook uses the same Intel graphics chip as > the Mac mini. </div></div> Caroline/Bert, Do you still have access to those machines? If X server is the problem, the errors logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or $HOME/.xsession-errors will be valuable for diagnosis. If this log is not preserved on the stick, then one has to be boot the system 'single' user mode? The bootloader will usually have a way to append this boot parameter. Once the single user console comes up: # startx will launch the X server and report any errors on the console and also log them into /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. If the graphical login manager is configured to log into a default login account, then post-login errors will be logged in $HOME/.xsession-errors. These two files can give us a clue. HTH .. Subbu</div></blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax