From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop graphics card broken??
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:15:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640610201615v3ea9f683v95431aaf4108559a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com>
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?
-Richard
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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
2006-10-20 23:15 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-10-21 11:13 ` [gentoo-user] " José González Gómez
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