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pethor
January 6th, 2012, 09:28 PM
Dear Ubuntu Community!

3 years ago I bought a Toshiba Qosmio X500-10V PQX33E Laptop as I wanted to have a desktop replacement. I am doing a lot of photo and video editing on it (on Windows).

Now a new situation came up: I had to install a Linux distribution on this system. Just to mention it: I already have some Linux knowledge and a working Debian system at home.

I wanted to boot from the Live-CD, but after booting for a while it showed some funny lines on the screen. LINK (http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5743/img0278ok.jpg)

I have tried several Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo Live, even Parted Magic) but NONE of them is working - they are all showing this stripes.

In my opinion this has to do with my graphic card, a NVidia GeForce GTS250M. What should I do now?

Greetings,
Pethor :)

Quackers
January 6th, 2012, 11:06 PM
Try booting with the "nomodeset" boot option as described below

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

pethor
January 7th, 2012, 10:21 AM
Thank you a lot Quackers! This helped :)