On 5/26/06, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Levi Smith wrote:
> i believe
> everything is fine except I don't seem to have my backlight anymore (or
> it's
> just not turning on).
You probably hosed the inverter. The backlight for LCD screens is a
fluorescent tube of sorts. It needs both a positive and negative voltage
relative to ground to operate. They're fickle parts.
> Which makes it a might difficult to see the screen.
> and the next issue is the fact that my external output seems to work just
> fine except that I can not see my pointer on the external screen while in
> SimplyMepis (shows up just fine in Windows, and i can make it out on the
> laptop screen). When I get the bouncy cursor when it's trying to do
> something, THAT shows up on the external monitor... I tried changing the
> mouse pointer theme, but no change.
Now this I can't help you with -- blame your window manager or X or
something.
> So, anyway... Anyone have any experiene in repairing a backlight, or know
> of a good place to have it done? At this point I'm hoping it will dry
> out a
It probably won't dry out and work :\ What I'd do is haunt ebay for an
inverter for your model laptop. At least then you can replace that.
Depending on the unit, inverter replacement can be relatively easy, or
more pain in the ass than it's worth. It all depends on the unit, sadly
:( It's always worth a shot. If it turns out to be too difficult to
fix, you can always buy a new laptop.
When something like this happened to my daughter's laptop, she ended
up transplanting the hard drive and the optical drive and the RAM to
another (used) laptop of the same type.
carl
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