<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>this isn't really technical, but it has worked for me on some old acer laptops and an acer power SV from the kids who know dad loves to ressurect old computers. on these the password to access the hard drive comes up twice and I enter the passwords . the xubuntu screen does not come up until I repeatedly type that password quickly and repeatedly around 4 times and the the xubuntu screen comes up , blanks and comes up again and then turns to the desktop. something magical came along during an update last fall and the problem went away on all but one laptop ....if you can only get xubuntu installed in the first place, eh? good luck again..... oh and did you do a checksum of the xubuntu download? sometimes if I use the public library here (free community access in Canada) the connection is so slow there have been errors in the download almost as in the dialup days. <div>> From: xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 87, Issue 11 > To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:00:23 +0000 > > Send xubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of xubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: White Screen at CD boot (Wee Dram) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:08:49 -0700 > From: Wee Dram <a3c63608@telus.net> > To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions > <xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] White Screen at CD boot > Message-ID: <0CA9CA1F-56BB-40D6-B6E1-96AF615332B9@telus.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp932" > > Thank you, Benjamin and Fred and Richard, for your suggestions. > First, I forgot to mentioned that I was trying to install Xubuntu 12.04.4 desktop i386. > 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. > 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. > Thanks again for the help, > Ross > > > On Apr 10, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Fred Roller <fredroller66@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 04/10/2014 11:42 AM, Benjamin Shadwick wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:00 AM, <xubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: > >>> 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: > >>> > >>> Deleting the ?quiet splash? command > >>> > >>> Choosing the nomodeset > >>> > >>> Adding the following, individually, to the boot options lineAdding i915.modset=0 > >>> > >>> xforcevesa > >>> > >>> fb=false > >>> > >>> vga=771 > >> 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. > >> > >> My failure mode is different, though: the screen alternates between reg, green and blue colors. > > 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. > > > > HTH > > Fred > > -- > > xubuntu-users mailing list > > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/attachments/20140411/a5b2f085/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > > > End of xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 87, Issue 11 > ********************************************* </div> </div></body> </html>