My System 76 Bonobo Extreme screen died. No display at all. it looks as though the video cable is not even connected. For the past month and a half it has suddenly started displaying a distorted screen, but rebooting cured it. And it took a complete reboot - just restarting X was not sufficient. because rebooting cured it i always suspected a software problem, but diligent searches on the net failed to turn up even one complaint about the GeForce GTX 765M and Linux. i have always used just the default nouveau driver that Xubuntu 14.04.1 installed; no proprietary drivers or even fancy stuff like bumblebee. And when i rebooted this morning and got no video at all i booted to a 14.04.1 live DVD, but it gives me a black screen as well, so now we know there is definitely a hardware failure somewhere.
of course, due to the perversity of inanimate matter, this happened first thing Saturday morning of a three-day weekend. I can't contact System76 until Tuesday. I am assuming i will have to ship it back to Colorado, unless I get lucky and figure out some way to fix it myself. It was new early last December, but I haven't checked the warranty yet. The computer has two drives; / and /home are on a 480 GB SSD and there is also a 1 TB hybrid drive, practically unused, and what little is on it is expendable. i plan to remove the SSD before shipping it back to System76, but I'd like to back up everything on it as well. Actually, a complete disk copy (dd?) might be more appropriate. There is plenty of space to do so either on my desktop or on an external USB drive. But I don't know how to do so with a dead video. There is a share set up on the laptop, but only for /media. Does anyone have any suggestion? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
