Swimmie1
July 27th, 2010, 07:41 AM
Ok, I've gotten no response at Ubuntugeeks, so it's up to you!
I've been trying to run 64-bit 10.04 LiveCD for two+ days now. Machine is an Acer Aspire E7300 (M3641) w/ nVidia GeForce G100, and garden variety mouse + keyboard plugged in via USB.
The farthest I've gotten is to the actual desktop screen; the only way I've been able to get even that far is by changing the boot options to replace "quiet screen" with "nomodeset", and changing the BIOS to enable legacy keyboard support. From what I've read, all this is necessitated by my having a (ubiquitous) graphics card.
Once the desktop screen appears, however, the cursor is frozen in the middle of the screen and the keyboard has no effect whatsoever. I'm dead in the water.
I've tried toggling the "enable legacy support" for the mouse, per someone's suggestion, with no effect.
Please, please, please help me.
[I'm not a programmer, and this is my first foray into Linux, and please forgive what I'm about to say...but I'm beginning to wonder: is this really what the great Linux revolution looks like? Machine-by-machine recoding of each and every OS upon installation?]
I've been trying to run 64-bit 10.04 LiveCD for two+ days now. Machine is an Acer Aspire E7300 (M3641) w/ nVidia GeForce G100, and garden variety mouse + keyboard plugged in via USB.
The farthest I've gotten is to the actual desktop screen; the only way I've been able to get even that far is by changing the boot options to replace "quiet screen" with "nomodeset", and changing the BIOS to enable legacy keyboard support. From what I've read, all this is necessitated by my having a (ubiquitous) graphics card.
Once the desktop screen appears, however, the cursor is frozen in the middle of the screen and the keyboard has no effect whatsoever. I'm dead in the water.
I've tried toggling the "enable legacy support" for the mouse, per someone's suggestion, with no effect.
Please, please, please help me.
[I'm not a programmer, and this is my first foray into Linux, and please forgive what I'm about to say...but I'm beginning to wonder: is this really what the great Linux revolution looks like? Machine-by-machine recoding of each and every OS upon installation?]