My experience with laptop graphics has taught me not to rule out hardware issues. I have a Dell XPS M1730 which refuses properly output over DVI without a VGA adaptor and more recently, fails to display on the inbuilt LCD screen.<div><br></div><div>I would suspect hardware or firmware problem (or memory maybe? - depending if it uses shared memory), but try Andrews suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue., 29 May 2018, 11:17 Andrew Furey, <<a href="mailto:andrew.furey@gmail.com">andrew.furey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Perhaps try lowering the resolution? That's all I can think, in terms of what I've seen with external TVs etc.<br><br></div><div>(Apologies for the top posting, grr Gmail...)<br></div><div><br></div>Andrew<br><br></div>(Re-replying to send to the list - admins has the Reply-To disappeared?)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 May 2018 at 19:27, David Buddrige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.buddrige@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.buddrige@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I have a rather old EEPC 1000HE laptop that I am trying to load up with ubuntu 16.04 LTS.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The problem is that I can’t get the laptop screen to work properly. It just displays garbled nonsense (exactly like this: </span><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5khdj3c22t5vgb9/IMG_1873.JPG?dl=0" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/5khdj3c22t5vgb9/IMG_1873.JPG?dl=0</a> )</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000">The thing is, the screen works fine if i plug in an external monitor (I can even do extended display using both screens). But if I boot the system without an external monitor, then I get the garbled screen as per the screenshot).</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000">Has anyone got any thoughts on this - I’ve been trawling google for hours but with no luck so far)</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000">thanks heaps for any suggestions</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" color="#000000">David</font></div><div><br></div><div><span>Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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