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From: "José González Gómez" <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop graphics card broken??
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:13:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <306bf010610210413w5581ed49o149c43a8c20459f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610201615v3ea9f683v95431aaf4108559a@mail.gmail.com>

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2006/10/21, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>:
>
> On 10/20/06, José González Gómez <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Does your Gentoo system boot into X, or to a console?
>
> Have you tried plugging in an external monitor to see what is displayed
> there?
>

This is solved now... I restarted the computer several times until the
screen displayed the bootup screen. I then entered the BIOS, changed all the
configuration related to the screen (dual screen detection, automatic
brightness,...), and then restarted. After restarting a few times and
checking that the screen always functioned properly I entered the BIOS again
and reverted back all changes. Now the screen is working properly. I don't
know what the hell happened.

Thanks everybody for your help.

Best regards
Jose

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 11:18 UTC|newest]

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
2006-10-20 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish
2006-10-21 11:13   ` José González Gómez [this message]

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