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 1GazpF-0000xg-0i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:14:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9KJCNRS015701; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:12:23 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9KJA97o008197 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:10:09 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2141755nfa for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:10:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=NWY4Vl6+9J96VJoyimWBYSkXVeQ2uzAQZOTayullpfoTpqZJ2MnsPsPOIRHqSUkXM2m9cxE7RD7lpWKOuo5EFRwYb+uul3cL/iHhp3RjGJgNJP4Fh2zL94HWiUH8QHNve8tTQ2MlLNooe4Py5DCo8m9d05JNUXBJEirA+pVPveU= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr795168buc; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.165.18 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:10:08 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Gonz=E1lez_G=F3mez?=" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop graphics card broken?? 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_60663_24870997.1161371408725" X-Archives-Salt: b0fcaa54-0b9a-4a25-a498-df43fd7b64dc X-Archives-Hash: cca8f15c8c51cef9da7c0ed0d43a99f0 ------=_Part_60663_24870997.1161371408725 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sorry for the off track, but I'm totally lost regarding this, and I thought maybe somebody could shed some light on this... I've got an Acer Aspire 1520 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and a dual Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics card seems to be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the laptop the screen is off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Gentoo from the grub boot (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 Wesnoth. The only logical explanation I can think of, unless I'm totally retarded 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????? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose ------=_Part_60663_24870997.1161371408725 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sorry for the off track, but I'm totally lost regarding this, and I thought maybe somebody could shed some light on this...

I've got an Acer Aspire 1520 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and a dual Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics card seems to be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the laptop the screen is off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Gentoo from the grub boot (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 Wesnoth.

The only logical explanation I can think of, unless I'm totally retarded 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?????

Thanks in advance, best regards
Jose
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