Ubuntu 11.10 installation failure

[younesgeorge]

Hi,


I am not able to install UBUNTU 11.10 on my new Toshiba Qosmio F7553D.
It is a Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM processor, with a NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M (3D Vision) and a 1GB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory.



The technical discription of this laptop can be found here http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/qosmio/F750/F755-3D350
I tried the CD installation, but right after the restart I am taken to a black page with writings such as:
[ 4.977467] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
...
...
...
[ 5.322385] usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 5.777889] usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd


and everything stops after this last line, it is like the page freezes. I tried the wubi.exe windows installer, same thing. Tried version 11.04, same thing.



Just for the fun of it, I tried installing the same version, 11.10, on my Samsung notebook 1GHz processor (which I use strictly for presentations) and was done in 10 minutes.


I really can use some help, I use UBUNTU for work and I am freaking out.


Sincerely yours,
George Younes

[Rubi1200]

Hi and welcome to the forums :)

You can try using nomodeset.

See post #1 here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

[younesgeorge]

Thanks a lot. I almost gave up on the laptop actually. Choosing the nomodeset option worked perfectly.
Thanks again.

[Rubi1200]

No problem, you are more than welcome and I'm glad things worked out for you :)

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