Ubuntu won't load - odd screen

[Monsieur Williams]

Recently I just tried to run the LiveCD of Ubuntu on my Toshiba P200 laptop and the resolution was detected successfully, however, when it came to loading past the splash screen, the screen kept blurring in and out, and then after, just odd pixels popping up and I had to resort to turning off my laptop. (I've tried running both the LiveCD and Wubi)

Does anyone know the cause or a resolution to this problem? :confused:

Thanks!

P.S - I'm a newbie to this stuff.

[lisati]

What sort of specs does your machine have? e.g. amount of RAM and that kind of stuff.

[Monsieur Williams]

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Ram: 2GB
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400
Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio
Hard Drive: Hitachi - 250GB
CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-RW

Anything else? :)

[Monsieur Williams]

I've got some more information. After attempting to load Ubuntu without xorg.conf I found that a few messages popped up that stated a file or folder for ACPI was missing and of course, a message about the missing xorg.conf

[Alexis Phoenix]

I didn't know you could run a live cd version without xorg.conf! Anyway, it could be that your cd, or the image used to create it, is slightly corrupted (this has happened to me, long ago).

You could also try to see if the laptop works with other distributions.

Alexis Phoenix

[Monsieur Williams]

I tested Fedora just recently from a DVD and it still produced a wierd screen.