>>>>> "MD" == Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> writes:
>> My (old!) laptop stopped displaying anything tonight.
>>
>> The bios displays (including the bios passwd display, setup, grub menu,
>> etc) all are blank on both the lcd and vga.
MD> Did those show up on VGA before?
Presumably, but it has never been connected to an external monitor
before....
There is a CRT/LCD Fn key, but that didn't do anything noticeable, given
the lack of display.
MD> I don't think there's anything to reset on the GPU itself. It sounds
MD> like either one of your BIOS images got corrupted, or something related
MD> to the LVDS panel physically broke.
[SIGH]. Re-flashing will be a pain w/o a display....
MD> Please provide dmesg and Xorg.0.log.
forthcoming....
>> PS Should the M7 be able to read the EDID across VGA?
MD> Generally yes.
Either w/ or w/o a vga monitor dmesg shows:
DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
-JimC
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