retitle 245919 xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] CRT display too bright on Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] rev 0 tag 245919 + upstream merge 245919 234025 # we still need someone to test that patch tag 234025 + moreinfo thanks On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:27:35AM -0000, sacrificial-spam-address@horizon.com wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0-7 > > Briefly, starting X on this Debian/unstable, x86, kernel 2.6.5 system > produces a display reminiscent of gamma set *way* too high. > Bright, washed-out, and illegible. > > Earlier versions worked perfectly, although I don't have an archive > to find exactly where it broke. > > If I set the display gamma to 0.4, I end up with a display that just > looks like Arizona summer at high noon and I want sunglasses. > I.e. black text on white is legible, even if it's an awfully pale black. > > This appears to be the same bug talked about in > http://www.spinics.net/lists/rh-xf/msg01127.html > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2004-01/1739.html > and possibly > http://www.redhat.com/archives/xfree86-list/2003-October/msg00003.html And also: http://bugs.debian.org/234025 ...which has already been filed. > There is some talk there of a fix in CVS, which would be very helpful. Patches to XFree86 CVS are not always available to us due to XFree86's license change. > Thank you very much for any assistance; I'm a little wary of trying > to compile xfree86 from CVS. If you're willing to patch and compile XFree86 from Debian's packages, you could help us out tremendously in resolving this bug! Please see http://bugs.debian.org/234025 for more information. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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