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.
>
>
>
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