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I could boot the live USB without problem. Using it, I installed 11.10 into an USB Disk. Did the same with previous versions (10.04 and 10.10) without problems before.

Now, when I boot this fresh installation, it shows like a terminal, and the last message is something like "Checking battery state". I can switch to another terminal (tty1) and log in... Already installed nvida-current, gdm, etc... without luck...

Really, I'm very disappointed with 11.10... Its the first version from 9.10 that doesn't work out the box with my Vostro 1500 (nvidia 8600GT Movile)...

Any idea???

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If you have nvidia proprietary drivers installed , then you need to blaclist nouveau driver.

or try this.

go to the terminal and remove the xorg.conf file using the command:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

see if that helps.

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