pnfrank1234
December 30th, 2009, 09:45 PM
I have a gateway NV laptop with widescreen, approx 1300x768 resolution. Plenty of ram/diskspace as it's new.
My install and partitioning (to share dual boot with windows) went fine. the boot menu comes up fine. However, if I try to boot ubuntu in normal mode, i simply get a blank screen. I hear the drum sounds like it's actually loading. clt alt f1 seems to go to a console but the screen is garbled and i can't read anything but it looks like the console is probably typing out what I am writing.
booting ubuntu in recovery mode gets me nothing - no drum sounds, no console.
it's confusing since the install worked fine graphically - i hope this is just a setting I can somehow fix.
any ideas?
thanks for helping.
My install and partitioning (to share dual boot with windows) went fine. the boot menu comes up fine. However, if I try to boot ubuntu in normal mode, i simply get a blank screen. I hear the drum sounds like it's actually loading. clt alt f1 seems to go to a console but the screen is garbled and i can't read anything but it looks like the console is probably typing out what I am writing.
booting ubuntu in recovery mode gets me nothing - no drum sounds, no console.
it's confusing since the install worked fine graphically - i hope this is just a setting I can somehow fix.
any ideas?
thanks for helping.