<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p>In summary: I burned a CD. I tried it on the computer but the screen went white after a few moments. I tried the CD on a newer Toshiba and it seems to work fine. After checking various help sources, I was able to get to the boot menu on the older computer and try a few options there: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Deleting the ‘quiet splash’ command<u></u><u></u></p><p>Choosing the nomodeset<u></u><u></u></p><p>Adding the following, individually, to the boot options lineAdding i915.modset=0 <u></u><u></u></p><p>xforcevesa<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>fb=false<u></u><u></u></p><p>vga=771<br></p></div></div></blockquote></div>You might try the acpi=off boot option. I have to use that with most Ubuntu distros on my laptop until such time as I am able to replace the Nouveau driver with the nVidia proprietary one because the former seems to choke on the fact that I have SLI.<br>
<br>My failure mode is different, though: the screen alternates between reg, green and blue colors.<br></div></div>