Well not just AntiX but every single distro I have tried has landed me no where but with a black screen, it either won't boot up the live cd, won't install, will install and then boot up black. I don't know what the deal is, I have read on a couple forums that adding acpi=off to the boot/install will help but then that disables power management and on a laptop thats no good. I don't know if its a resolution issue or what, but I can tell you that in Windows, the best I can get resolution wise is 1024x768 at 60hz and 24bit color...32bit isn't even an option, so I think that the limited display range is what is causing these issues, if it matters it uses an Intel 8xxx series video onboard setup, but again I'm not expert, and SP2 XP on this machine sucks but anything less is hardly functional for what I want to do. Anyone have any ideas?

dmxsoulja3, welcome to antiX

and we'll try to get antiX up and running.

When running the livecd, at grub screen, firstly hit F3 and choose the screen resolution ie 1024x768. Then try the vesa option and/or the minimum option.

Post back what happens or try adding the cheat code
nogui
to the menu (just type at grub menu screen)
Then login as demo, password demo and report what happens.

Edit: I presume you are using antiX-M7 Lysistrata

alright I get off work in a few hours and I will give that a shot and report back, I'm hoping to make this a useable piece of equipment, as it was given to me and looks like it just came out of the box new I hate to waste it but with a ram ceiling of 512 and my browsing needs and such XP runs like a dog on it. Thanks for the help, I will report back soon, thanks also for pointing me over from uforums

dmxsoulja3 wrote: that adding acpi=off to the boot/install will help but then that disables power management and on a laptop thats no good

You could replace ACPI with APM (if this were your main problem).

yeah I have read about that, like I said I'm very new to linux, I got ubuntu on my desktop and been using it for about two months and love it, does everything I need and quickly so when I got this laptop I'm thinking wow I'm going to be good to go, but it has been painful, especially since it came with win2k and I wiped it and don't have a copy of win2k, and XP wow, runs like ish..