I have the same laptop. With usplash disabled as well as with enabled, the black screen occurs and the machine completely freezes and it's impossible to continue the installation. The problem is the openchrome video driver which Ubuntu tries to use for this laptop. The only way to install Intrepid is to use the alternate CD or prevent LiveCD from running X, manually set the driver to vesa and then run X (I don't know how to do it).
In Hardy (and possibly with previous releases, I haven't tried) there was no black screen before installation. I was able to install Hardy successfully (but the resolution was too high: I think it was 1440x960 and the nominal for La1703's panel is 1280x800 and it was impossible to change it without hang) and when system tried to kill X and reboot after installation, machine friezed but after that it was possible to boot the system from hard disk, set X driver to vesa and work on Ubuntu without any problems. The problem with openchrome has been submitted 8 months ago: http://openchrome.org/trac/ticket/165 If the problem will not be solved, I think that 9.04 should use vesa driver (and 1280x800 resolution!) on this laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo La1703). -- K8M890 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290245 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
