I have the same problem with the same Asus laptop, with the black screen issue straight after booting into gnome on the live cd. A box appears in the centre of the screen, which I assume is the ubiquity installer, then the screen goes blank. Pressing CRL-F1 causes the backlight on the laptop to switch off, with no response from keyboard or mouse. This is on BETA 2
I have the same problem with the same Asus laptop, with the black screen issue straight after booting into gnome on the live cd. A box appears in the centre of the screen, which I assume is the ubiquity installer, then the screen goes blank. Pressing CRL-F1 causes the backlight on the laptop to switch off, with no response from keyboard or mouse. This is on BETA 2