I'm glad to say that most things seem to be working now. The additional problems, with the black desktop etc, seems to be caused by compiz. Following some advice from the forum I "turned off" compiz and things are running smoothly now. Anyway, I've attached my menu.lst file, perhaps there's something there that caused the whole thing.
** Attachment added: "menu.lst file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34907135/menu.lst -- After upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 no sound is available. asound -l from the command line gives: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/466556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs