From: "José González Gómez" <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Laptop graphics card broken??
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:58:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <306bf010610201258gea78f9en1dc06e04a17ec295@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610202135.22691.harmgeerts@home.nl>
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2006/10/20, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>:
>
> On Friday 20 October 2006 21:10, José González Gómez wrote:
> > 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?????
>
> You could try a linux livecd and see what that does.
The same, the screen keeps off... anyway, this seems to be random: I have
just restarted the computer while making tests and one of the times the
screen functioned normally.
And are there any settings regarding the screen in the BIOS?
I cannot access the BIOS, as the screen shows nothing until Windows starts.
Thanks, best regards
Jose
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 19:10 [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop graphics card broken?? José González Gómez
2006-10-20 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-20 19:58 ` José González Gómez [this message]
2006-10-20 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish
2006-10-21 11:13 ` José González Gómez
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