>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Worthington <[email protected]> writes:
Tom> I plugged the video cable into my laptop to give a presentation
Tom> at the Slug meeting in the Google Sydney seminar room last
Tom> Friday. As soon as I plugged the cable in, my laptop screen went
Tom> blank and has not worked since.
Hmmm.
Tom> The laptop works fine with an external monitor connected. Also
Tom> the backlight on the laptop lights but nothing is displayed. I
Tom> have tried changing the display settings and booting from a
Tom> different Ubuntu on a flash drive. These work fine, with an
Tom> external monitor, just not the laptop screen.
If it works with an external monitor, get yourself an xterm or similar
and type
xrandr
This'll show you what video outputs the X server thinks are connected.
You're looking for one that says LVDS or similar.
If there's one there, it may be called LVDS or LVDS1 or LVDS-0 or
something like that.
Type
xrandr --output LVDS --auto
and it should come good. (Use whatever the actual name was in the
xrandr output).
Peter C
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