From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gb0Dc-0007Vd-Rf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:39:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9KJbZXI018901; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:37:35 GMT Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9KJZQFQ005127 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:35:26 GMT Received: from [213.51.130.188] (port=49106 helo=smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Gb1gm-0002oA-4S for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:14:00 +0200 Received: from cc117081-a.gorre1.fr.home.nl ([217.120.145.219]:51074 helo=manuel.fawlty.mine.nu) by smtp3.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Gb07a-0005m7-LT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:33:34 +0200 From: Harm Geerts To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Laptop graphics card broken?? Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:35:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610202135.22691.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9KJZQFQ005127 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9KJbZXk018901 X-Archives-Salt: c986eb59-a886-47ab-8410-9820396a087b X-Archives-Hash: 1863f01ae50a3cfdae1a51c65dbb38e2 On Friday 20 October 2006 21:10, Jos=C3=A9 Gonz=C3=A1lez G=C3=B3mez wrote= : > Sorry for the off track, but I'm totally lost regarding this, and I tho= ught > maybe somebody could shed some light on this... > > I've got an Acer Aspire 1520 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and a dua= l > Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics card see= ms > to be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the laptop the scree= n is > off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Gentoo from the grub bo= ot > (I know where the options are, so I can select it even with the screen = off) > the screen keeps off, but if I select Windows, the screen gets on, but = only > when Windows reach the login screen, not before. By the way, the laptop > fell some time ago from around a meter high, but after that kept on > working, although I had some sporadic hangs on Linux, with the screen > showing kind of light snow noise, almost always playing Battle of Wesno= th. > > The only logical explanation I can think of, unless I'm totally retarde= d > and missing something clearly obvious, is that the card (or the screen) > seems to be working only at some resolution/color depth/frequency > combination ( 1280x800@60, 32bit), and that I'm not using the working > combination at Linux, but this seems really strange and I haven't heard= of > anything like this before. > > Anyone has any idea on this? What could I check to further diagnose the > problem? Any solution? Am I missing anything????? You could try a linux livecd and see what that does. And are there any settings regarding the screen in the BIOS? --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list