Hey all, just tried out the RC of Kubuntu; I'm a tad worried;

My netbook can boot it, my friend's laptop can boot it, but mine can't.

It freezes during the loading of 'K' on the splash screen, the K becomes partially 'unfuzzed' then my fans go mad.

I seriously need help here, I hope that my laptop has not been discarded yet I have no way of knowing what to do!

I don't know if it helps but you can check the logs if there is some useful information there. The problem may be caused by your graphics drivers, KWin's compositing or X settings. What is your hardware configuration? Are the all drivers installed properly?

Ah, I neglected to mention this was a LiveUSB enviroment.

I've had some problems with other distros complaining of USB's in the past....

I would switch to console mode when the system is booting and check /var/log because it sounds to me like a problem with the graphics drivers. Another option is to try LiveCD and see if the same problem occurs or just wait for the final release

Well..it's still happening

Apparently it's got something to do with the new open-source driver for Nvida cards...I have NO IDEA how to kill it. Please, somebody, help!

Have you tried booting in failsafe mode?

I got my family's Linux guru to have a look at it, apprarently it was the new nouevou driver not fully loading due to a glitch of my hardware.

Blacklisting the driver did not work, as the init file was hard-coded to run it.

I sucesfully got around it by upgrading from 9.10 with NVIDA binary driver active.