I tried this method, but it screws up everything, end you end up with a half working OS..

has anyone found a fix?

So my best guess is that this is a system failure with the ATI, probably the ACPI too

Is that the model with the Intel Graphics Accelerator? Mine is with Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.80GHz) and ATI Radeon HD X2300.

Well I found the problem with this exact model, but no one seems to know how to fix it.

On the Acer Aspire 5720 I booted with nohotplug and then ran these commands:


/sbin/udevd --daemon --debug-trace --verbose log_priority=debug
/sbin/udevtrigger

Then the hangup happens on this...

to be honest don't know how to do it with a live cd

There's a built-in Ricoh R5C822 5-in-1 car reader, but I don't think thats the problem

The only way I can figure out on how to boot the system, is by using the "nohotplug" option, but then the...

does anyone know a fix for this?

Acer Aspire 5720 not booting successfully. The system hangs while booting on:



Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.80GHz)
Chipset Intel 965GM
2GB DDR2 Ram
S-ATA Hard Disk Drive

that's a good workaround, but not good enough sadly..

try changing the hostname

how about google?
http://legroom.net/howto/splash

just google dammit
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Slackware

what didn't you understand?

ifconfig wlan0 up

The fact that BT beta wasn't fully patched and modded, the rfcomm0 thing didn't bother me that much. but with the final, and the fact that bluesnarfer was included in BT, AND doesn't work .. that...