Yes, that's exactly my thinking. However, this is what I get. I even tried reinstalling (several times), and still got the same result :(
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Yes, that's exactly my thinking. However, this is what I get. I even tried reinstalling (several times), and still got the same result :(
Well, what I don't understand is, if it is a driver problem, then how come it works fine when I boot from the dvd (not only the trackpad, but even touch screen works)? Why can't the installed system...
Yes, nomodeset did it, thanks!
I was able to boot, and do the install.
Now the next problem is that when I boot to the installed system, it seems to be working ... except, that it does not respond...
I am trying to install 12.04 on my Acer Aspire. It boots to the first screen (the dark magenta image with icons of a keyboard, and a little man in a circle - whatever that means - at the bottom),...
Hm. You didn't forget the "sudo" in the beginning of the command, did you?
$USER is a shell variable, that is automatically set to your username. You don't need to replace it with anything, just...
Do not rm ~/.xsession-errors!
The processes that have it open will hang on to it, and keep writing, and eating up your disk space.
Linking to /dev/null seems to help for a while, but then something...