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folmez
February 13th, 2010, 08:02 PM
hi everyone,

i have used ubuntu for almost 2 years now. recently i got this laptop:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/850194/Acer-AS5740-5780-15-6-Widescreen/

it came with windows 7. I installed 8.04 with no hesitation and now i am stuck with UNCLAIMED drivers. video, sound, wireless. Can someone help me? give some advice?
i then tried installing 9.10, but no luck. i couldn't get it pass the install ubuntu screen.
always black scree. though once after waiting like five minutes on the black screen i heard the regular ubuntu start sound. i have no idea why this happened for the screen was black. any suggestions at all? do you think these problems might be solved by installing the latest ubuntu?

- fatih

mattwalston
February 27th, 2010, 01:49 PM
Start with an lspci and we may see a bit of hardware that causes problems. Also try installing without APIC and ACPI turned off.