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2006/10/20, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>: |
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> On Friday 20 October 2006 21:10, José González Gómez wrote: |
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> > Sorry for the off track, but I'm totally lost regarding this, and I |
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> thought |
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> > maybe somebody could shed some light on this... |
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> > |
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> > I've got an Acer Aspire 1520 with an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 and a dual |
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> > Gentoo Linux/Windows install. The problem is that the graphics card |
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> seems |
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> > to be broken, at least partially: whenever I start the laptop the screen |
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> is |
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> > off, and here comes the weird part, if I select Gentoo from the grub |
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> boot |
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> > (I know where the options are, so I can select it even with the screen |
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> off) |
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> > the screen keeps off, but if I select Windows, the screen gets on, but |
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> only |
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> > when Windows reach the login screen, not before. By the way, the laptop |
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> > fell some time ago from around a meter high, but after that kept on |
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> > working, although I had some sporadic hangs on Linux, with the screen |
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> > showing kind of light snow noise, almost always playing Battle of |
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> Wesnoth. |
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> > |
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> > The only logical explanation I can think of, unless I'm totally retarded |
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> > and missing something clearly obvious, is that the card (or the screen) |
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> > seems to be working only at some resolution/color depth/frequency |
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> > combination ( 1280x800@60, 32bit), and that I'm not using the working |
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> > combination at Linux, but this seems really strange and I haven't heard |
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> of |
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> > anything like this before. |
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> > |
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> > Anyone has any idea on this? What could I check to further diagnose the |
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> > problem? Any solution? Am I missing anything????? |
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> You could try a linux livecd and see what that does. |
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The same, the screen keeps off... anyway, this seems to be random: I have |
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just restarted the computer while making tests and one of the times the |
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screen functioned normally. |
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And are there any settings regarding the screen in the BIOS? |
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I cannot access the BIOS, as the screen shows nothing until Windows starts. |
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Thanks, best regards |
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Jose |
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