In message <20010915173000.A7158@flash.vaultron.com>, Andrew Gillham writes:
>Can you point Abiword at a remote X server and see if the laptop prints
>anything out on the text console?  (or doesn't reboot, etc)
>You might try a serial console also, to capture any thing.

Good ideas, thanks.  I'll have to set that up.  Unfortunately, no convenient
serial ports; I'll have to poke around a bit.

-s