[ltp] Replacement LCDs (for 770X)?

[Tod Harter]

Hehe, yeah. I remember those old days too. ext2 utils 1.19 (and up if there 
are newer) are very nice. Now I've gone to reiserfs to see how that works. So 
far it does do a blindingly fast fsck! Hopefully I WON'T test its ability to 
survive a giant disaster anytime soon.... ;o). 

n Friday 30 November 2001 11:42, you wrote:
> Bad laptop karma (full moon, imbalance in the Force?).  Amazed that you
> could bring it back at all - the last time I had to try this was several
> years ago when the recovery tools were not in such good shape and you had
> to manually track the block/sectors around to find the bits.  Luckily a TA
> was keen to try it.
>
> Harry
>
> Tod Harter wrote:
> > 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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