Re: Thinkpad 770ED, Debian Sarge, new XFree 4.2.1
Ugh.. I'm having this same problem with my Thinkpad 770E. Did anyone
ever figure out how to fix it?
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 19:21, Darin Strait wrote:
> I let my machine upgrade to the new XFree packages tonight, and my X is
> hosed.
>
> X does run (it might even be a little bit faster :-/), but it seems as
> if it's picked an improper color depth for the hardware -- the display
> looks solarized, sort of. The colors are wrong, but I can manipulate
> windows and my familiarity with my WindowMaker menu lets me remember
> where my stuff is. Clearly, this needs to be fixed, though.
>
> XFree doesn't seem to care what color depth I run at -- at each depth I
> tried I find that my colors are slightly differently wrong. For example,
> my xload, which is usually a black graph on a white background is now a
> grey graph on a black background. At a different color depth, the colors
> would be different, but still wrong.
>
> One thing I notice is that what should be gradual fades from one color
> to another, through many subtle shades, (like title bars, or the
> splashscreen from KDE) have been reduced to repeating patterns of
> unsubtle shades.
>
> What to do? I'm only moderately clued-in as far as X goes, but I've
> dpkg-reconfigured and apt-get remove/apt-get updated a few things with
> absolutely no progress.
>
> (I did fix my pex5 unresolved symbol error, though.)
>
> -d
>
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