'Old' as in a 900MHz AMD Duron processor - bought it very secondhand from a work colleague, I'm guessing it's close to 10 years old!
I think it has Nvidia graphics but I'm just running with the default Vesa driver which was configured during the install.

Just noticed an ACPI warning at boot-up so it looks like that's the problem - I'll try a few of your suggestions and see how I get on.
Thanks guys.

Hi,
Every time I try to shut down my machine it hangs at the 'System Halted' message - and fails to shut down, so I have to do it manually.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? The 'restart' option works fine, BTW.

Hi,
I've got a fresh Salix 13 install on a very old Compaq desktop machine and generally speaking I'm extremely impressed with this distro.

But, there's one minor thing that's bugging me - the cursor constantly flickers whenever I move the mouse.

It's a USB mouse and there's nothing in the Xfce ...

Just a question - when I use the 'Install multimedia codecs' option in teh Salix menu, which codecs are installed? There's no indication during the installation and I was just curious.
Thanks - v nice distro, BTW!