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helloinsomnia
May 1st, 2011, 05:48 PM
I have an old Gateway MA3 laptop that has a driver error. This causes the screen to go black on startup and so I need to use a Live CD to fix it. But every time I boot from a live CD it goes to that screen where it says Ubuntu and has the dots under it, after about 5 to 10 minutes the dots stop and it does not do anything from this point. I have left it for up to an hour before.

I also tried to boot it using nomodoset because that is part of the fix. This didn't work either.

Any tips would be awesome.

helloinsomnia
May 3rd, 2011, 10:12 PM
Anyone?

helloinsomnia
May 8th, 2011, 11:27 PM
Bump..

K_45
May 8th, 2011, 11:31 PM
Try a Debian live CD here:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/

The LXDE i386 is what I'd go for with those specs. See if that boots.

MAFoElffen
May 9th, 2011, 12:44 AM
I have an old Gateway MA3 laptop that has a driver error. This causes the screen to go black on startup and so I need to use a Live CD to fix it. But every time I boot from a live CD it goes to that screen where it says Ubuntu and has the dots under it, after about 5 to 10 minutes the dots stop and it does not do anything from this point. I have left it for up to an hour before.

I also tried to boot it using nomodoset because that is part of the fix. This didn't work either.

Any tips would be awesome.
Try adding


radeon mode=0 acpi_osi="Linux"
...As a startup option and refer to this sticky:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743535