Do you get the BIOS messages on the screen if you restart it?
On 6 December 2012 13:28, Tom Worthington <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/12/12 21:24, [email protected] wrote: > > ... If it works with an external monitor, get yourself an xterm or similar >> and type xrandr ... >> > > Thanks, that shows "LVDS1" and "VGA1" connected, so the X server thinks > the LCD screen is operating. > > Type xrandr --output LVDS --auto and it should come good ... >> > > No, still no image on the laptop LCD, just the back-light. So I guess it > must be a hardware problem. I will check with Kogan. > > > > -- > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards > Legislation > > Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, > Australian National University > http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/**COMP7310/<http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
