Hello, I just purchased this laptop. It is working fine but I want to use Xubuntu on it. I managed to get 10.04 installed and running but it did not recognize/use the wireless card. So I want to try 10.10. However, every time I try, the screen goes black and never comes back on. I have tried the Live CD and Alternate install CDs, for both Ubuntu and Xubuntu 10.10. After I select "Install Ubuntu" or "Try Ubuntu", the screen blacks out and never displays anything.

So I deleted "quiet" and "splash" off the command line to see what messages would come up. A bunch of text flies by but it ends at:

[time] TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes)

[time] TCP bind hash table entries 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

[time] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)

[time] TCP reno registered

[time] UDP hash table entries: 2048 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

[time] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 2048 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

[time] NET: Registered protocol family 1

And freezes here forever. I have tried nomodeset, vga=771, and xforcevesa with no progress. Is my video card simply not going to work with this distro? It seems strange that 10.04 would work fine but not 10.10.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.