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 1Gb3eS-0003TI-N8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:19:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9KNHY7v011079; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:17:34 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9KNFPU2030560 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:15:25 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2248447nfa for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:15:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Wdr6ds88ZsIPPcCU5hhKuZDUNOH0sDztU4dRmGjIrjuszjOvMZlJhhBizP3ta2kfTOVyQrOd+EtBhfQhSZoIzqI4/UNUB3Z5nSknpWj5UawZ/z4CXW5sZ9fyIIUgaOs2updyOWXXAjelvD2xjA4DdP17BVcMrsQKEkXjdtbvV+s= Received: by 10.82.126.19 with SMTP id y19mr854808buc; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.126.14 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640610201615v3ea9f683v95431aaf4108559a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:15:25 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop graphics card broken?? In-Reply-To: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <306bf010610201210o2710739bgf37b127fed7e0b49@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6da7ba464e1b0437 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9KNFPU2030560 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9KNHY8P011079 X-Archives-Salt: 6b60fadb-3d20-4904-8365-b3558244517a X-Archives-Hash: 9266027b40f4422ed07a6490325fc051 On 10/20/06, Jos=E9 Gonz=E1lez G=F3mez wr= ote: > 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 see= ms to > be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the laptop the screen i= s > off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Gentoo from the grub bo= ot (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 t= here? -Richard --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list