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 ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
