-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/09 20:21, Chris Jones wrote: > This happened over the last couple of days. on a laptop that spends all > its time on a desk .. didn't drop it, spill fluids or anything. > > The LCD is about a year old and so the cfl has only c. 1000 hours. > > If I leave the laptop to cool off for a while and boot, everything is > fine - display is nice & crisp, no funny colors or anything. > > As the laptop warms up, I begin to see some red flashes when I'm typing > something on a black background. > > When acpi reports a temperature of 60C or thereabout, the bright red > becomes permanent and what I'm typing - normally light grey on black, is > pretty much illegible. > > 60C is not hot on this laptop: the fan only starts up when it reaches a > termperature of 74C. > > When that happens, pretty much the only thing that is nice and crisp is > reverse video stuff such as my root prompt or visuual selections in vim. > > If I switch to a light background such as google search in mozilla, the > background has a bluish/greenish tinge in most places - more like > shadows than a uniform color.. also, it flickers. > > I have reseated the video cable to no effect - I vaguely suspect the > video card - an ATI Mach64 might be the culprit. > > Before I start bying new parts, I was wondering if anyone has > experienced anything similar to this. > > As you can imagine, since I don't have another machine available at > this point, I have not googled much for solutions :-) > > In fact, on-screen stuff is so bad that I'm having a hard time reading > what I just typed. > > To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > Thanks, > CJ >
The screenshots look normal to us, try taking them with a camera. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkoEiN8ACgkQ1kZz3mRu0Gr/VgCfb6SocIKjk/i7rg7p7d3eqfzX +msAn3qJCES7kd6V4/Fdxu5yo/NfjqVA =lkP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
