How do you enable the VESA driver for Live CD?
 

Hi, I need to know how you change the driver from Nvidia to VESA before installation because Im getting freezes after the splash screen with corrupted part of a window. I am a noob at Linux and need it explained well please. I have already tried putting "noapic" at the boot bar but still getting freezes after the loading screen.

Also, what are some good sites to learn about Linux/ubuntu. In order to understnad linux do you need to know the commands?

Try noapic, nolapic, vga=791 (something)

If you press F1 at the boot: prompt, do you get a menu? This will give you lists of things to try. The live disk will be using the nv driver ... with which there should be no issues.

You could try expert mode or noprobe.

I tried, "live vga=771 noapic nolapic" and "live acpi=off." Neither work but it seems to stop the freezing after the loading screen and X cursor. The first command moves the Ubuntu backround to the right. Is that supposed to happen and what else should I try for boot commands. Should I still try the VESA driver and if so I need to know how.

thankyou

Selecting drivers without knowledge of your hardware makes little sense. If the live CD has any question about your hardware it will use the "vesa" driver. It will not use any proprietary video drivers of which one named "nvidia" is. An accurate description of your problem, the symptoms and the steps you performed will allow a solution to be found.

It is unlikely that changing to the vesa driver will help you. For nvidia cards, it will use the nv driver by default.

From your information to date I understand the following:

You have some flavour of nvidia video card.
You are attempting to install some flavour of Ubuntu
After the first (boot: ) screen, the view changes and hangs.

The previous boot options stopped the "freezing" ... so what happens now?
Which Ubuntu is this?
What is your motherboard/cpu/chipset?

what video card do you have?

In a terminal window run "lspci |grep VGA" and your video card or mobo chipset will be displayed.