2006/10/20, Harm Geerts : > > 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