<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div>Thank you, Benjamin and Fred and Richard, for your suggestions. </div><div>First, I forgot to mentioned that I was trying to install Xubuntu 12.04.4 desktop i386. </div><div>When I tried Benjamin's suggestion (acpi=off), a black screen with Xubuntu on it appeared, along with a series of white dots showing, I guess, progress in loading the program. This was followed eventually by some on-screen text that went by too quickly to read. Then the screen went black and that was the end of that. Fred's suggestion resulted once again in a white screen. </div><div>So, no luck so far. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'm searching in other places, too, but sometimes the information is a bit cryptic, to me, at any rate. </div><div>Thanks again for the help,</div><div>Ross</div></div><div><br>On Apr 10, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Fred Roller <<a href="mailto:fredroller66@gmail.com">fredroller66@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<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: </p>
<p>Deleting the ‘quiet splash’ command</p>
<p>Choosing the nomodeset</p>
<p>Adding the following, individually, to the boot
options lineAdding i915.modset=0 </p>
<p>xforcevesa</p>
<p>fb=false</p>
<p>vga=771<br>
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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>
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My failure mode is different, though: the screen alternates
between reg, green and blue colors.<br>
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If Benjamin's suggestion does not help then you can try using the
"forcepae" option at boot. If memory serves 12.04 Ubuntu and
Xubuntu? supports this and I know the Ubuntu 14.04 beta 2 does but
the 14.04 Xubuntu does not as of yet. None of the tweeners support
the option (12.10-13.10) Latest distros require pae to function
according to my research on older systems. "forcepae" allows for
this adaptation. I don't have my links to the discussions but a
search on Pentium M processors should yield some better
explanations.<br>
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HTH<br>
Fred<br>
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