[wellylug] Purple Screen

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On 19 April 2012 09:04, Glenn Stuart Morrissey
<glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
> After all the fuss with non functioning XP and not being able to get
> recovery disks, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 alternate amd64 on my Acer
> desktop. The install went well, but on reboot all I have is a purple
> screen. Has anyone had a similar problem?

What is the graphis card/chipset in that machine?