@gcmartin - thanks for all your help -- I got Log Out finally working! Your first tip -- adding "lhp video=640x480" to the boot parameters -- had no effect. Logging out still resulted in the blank screen. So I tried your 2nd tip -- adding "pfix=vesa,ram" to the boot parameters (d...

Hmmm...last request. On the LH desktop, hit Ctrl-Alt+Backspace Your screen will probably go blank where you will not see anything: so type ' xwin ' even though you cannot see anything. This should return you to your LH desktop. Alas, still no luck: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -> screen goes BLANK. No text x...

It appears that while you are using the LH desktop, you are NOT having any problems. But, at Shutdown/Reboot, your screen just goes BLANK! Yes, gcmartin, that's an accurate summary of my problem. To test whether you can see text properly, do the following steps on your next use of LH. At LH desktop...

First, thanks to everyone who has made Lighthouse Pup such a success. I have an old Compaq desktop that I was about to get rid off because Windows XP has become unbarely slow. But I wondered if there were Linux distros for such machines with limited resources. I discovered LHP and installed it this ...