[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Laptop graphics card broken??

[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.
And are there any settings regarding the screen in the BIOS?

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