[ltp] Replacement LCDs (for 770X)?

[Tod Harter]

Cheer up Harry, it was a bad week for laptops. I was using my A20 the other 
day when it slid off my lap. The machine only took a slight bump, but 
apparently the retaining screw that keeps the hard drive in its bay had come 
loose. The drive became unseated momentarily and as a result I got a nice 
lesson is massive file system corruption!!! Spent the last 3 days sifting 
through the wreckage.

I must say though, linux has some excellent tools for salvaging ext2 file 
systems. I happened to have a copy of the Debian business card "BBC" CD on 
hand and booting off that I was able to salvage most of my files using 
"debugfs". I've never seen so porked a file system! The primary superblock 
was gone, the MBR was gone, and half the inode table was wrecked. Even so 
after an epic 5 hour fsck the system was able to boot and run X. "lost+found" 
had 7500+ entries in it, and half the rest of the files were corrupt. /dev 
was totally gone. Even so the kernel manfully made its way through something 
approximating a boot sequence! 

Needless to say I spent yesterday installing the newest Mandrake 8.1 ;o). I 
must say it is so far the best desktop distro ever! The only thing I had a 
beef with is that it totally botched its setup of X. Luckily I had a copy of 
my old XF86Config-4 to go by. 

On Friday 30 November 2001 02:10, you wrote:
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> >Oh boy did I ever not want to be writing this...
> >
> >Walked out of the room with laptop plugged in & running, screen open, new
> > puppy running free.  Did errands. Walked back in, laptop on floor, closed
> > but still running, opened it up to find 7 years bad luck.  Plugged it
> > into an external monitor and did the Fn+F7 and the ext screen lit up
> > perfectly as if I'd never left - the guts are apparently working
> > perfectly, but the screen is abstract art.
> >
> >Anyone know where to go and how much a new screen for a 770X is?  Or a
> > used, intact 770X?
>
> I feel your pain!! :( I am so sorry about what happened to your machine.
> I cannot offer any tips, but I sure hope you get some help.
> -Elmo
>
>
>
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