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 1Gb0cB-00089E-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:05:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9KK0bGW005810; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:00:37 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9KJw1vq001711 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:58:01 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2162890nfa for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:58:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=M/ppXHNrXfXU43xqarWBRJPkPIE7qJX5aebl/JlpVlwow6muy1M5QwGae6x+cInuT0nK6u9Ic32Nb+CWDCPL3DqZjmwWbQS/eFZ0Uffm50qwNUPqovs1JpJwIs7cR+ofCWHOR+OnaUn9Ewey7no5vt/MCooETBE/Yb9yxBDT6s0= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr790302bud; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.165.18 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <306bf010610201258gea78f9en1dc06e04a17ec295@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:58:00 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Gonz=E1lez_G=F3mez?=" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Laptop graphics card broken?? In-Reply-To: <200610202135.22691.harmgeerts@home.nl> 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_60871_12622697.1161374280116" References: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> <200610202135.22691.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-Archives-Salt: 0a146b99-52d8-455a-9802-0029d108185c X-Archives-Hash: 6c8ac43cb7d924293ad65989dc8364ae ------=_Part_60871_12622697.1161374280116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 2006/10/20, Harm Geerts : > > On Friday 20 October 2006 21:10, Jos=E9 Gonz=E1lez G=F3mez 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 dua= l > > Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics card > seems > > 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 > 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 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. 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 ------=_Part_60871_12622697.1161374280116 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
2006/10/20, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>:
On Friday 20 October 2006 21:10, Jos=E9 Gonz=E1lez G=F3mez wrote:
> S= orry for the off track, but I'm totally lost regarding this, and I thought<= br>> maybe somebody could shed some light on this...
>
> I'v= e got an Acer Aspire 1520 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and a dual
> Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics car= d seems
> to be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the lapt= op the screen is
> off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Ge= ntoo from the grub boot
> (I know where the options are, so I can select it even with the sc= reen 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 o= n
> working, although I had some sporadic hangs on Linux, with the sc= reen
> showing kind of light snow noise, almost always playing Battle= of Wesnoth.
>
> The only logical explanation I can think of, unless I'm to= tally retarded
> and missing something clearly obvious, is that the c= ard (or the screen)
> seems to be working only at some resolution/col= or depth/frequency
> combination ( 1280x800@60, 32bit), and that I'm not using the work= ing
> combination at Linux, but this seems really strange and I haven= 't heard of
> anything like this before.
>
> Anyone has a= ny 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 restar= ted the computer while making tests and one of the times the screen functio= ned normally.

And= are there any settings regarding the screen in the BIOS?

I cannot access the BIOS, as the screen shows nothing until Windows sta= rts.

Thanks, best regards
Jose

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