Hey Allen... this was one of the major glitches with Dapper, that it did that with some computers. Luckily though, it's still running (in almost all cases)... wait about 30 minutes just so you can be sure it's finished, press return a few times, wait another five minutes. If your computer doesn't shut down itself by then, shut it down yourself, take out the CD. When you boot up your computer, the distro should be for the most part installed. There will still be some parts to finish, but if it boots up fine, it means you've got it working. The screen thing is a problem which thankfully has been addressed and won't happen in future versions... but for this edition of ubuntu, some computers are just going to have to be installed from the alternate disc with a bit of temporary uncomfortable broken screen.
There were a bunch of problems with the installer and most of them have been well addressed. Thanks for taking the effort to file a bug report though. -- blank screen after installing software! https://launchpad.net/bugs/53672 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
