When attempting to install Ubuntu 10.04 Linux on an Acer Aspire M1640 my system would hang with black and white horizontal lines across the monitor. I know, right?!
This post details the problem and the “solution” I finally stumbled on to get past it.

This is a re-post of a blog post I made under a previous sytem. I don’t recall whether it was Ubuntu 8 or 9 but from what I read the problem has persisted throughout.
The problem:
After installing Ubuntu linux on an Acer Aspire M1640 the boot sequence would hang at …