I'm having the same error on the same model laptop. I dropped to console 1 and got some output.
=============== output of lshw -C display *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: GeForce 7000M (rev a2) vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 12 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:12.0 version: a2 width: 64 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 =============== ** Attachment added: "Here's the Xorg log file that it generated upon failure to detect a display" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18763699/Xorg.0.log -- Cannot start or configure video driver on live CD: Presario F700 using NVIDIA GeForce 7000M https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279782 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