This is weird. I've just built xorg-7.5 for the first time (versions as in BLFS, except xorg-server-1.7.4 and Mesa-7.6.1 - no hal, no dbus at this stage), and I can barely see the desktop, much less tell you what colours are used in the decorations. It's like looking through fog.
Detuned fluxbox to the version I used previously, but no different, so I guess it's something in xorg. Back to the old system. My monitor is normally set to "blackness 55" and "contrast 55" on this machine (both out of 100) which is comfortable on non-X, normally perfectly readable in xorg (up to 7.4), and lets me see a reasonable approximation of how photos will print (I need to tweak the gamma for that). If I boost both these settings to maximum (which makes the background too bright), it's still like looking through mist but mainly readable (text in red or green on black is still problematic). Has anybody seen anything like this, and if so what was the cause ? Alternatively, any suggestions for what search terms I should throw at google ? (xorg feint doesn't find anything that looks likely - a complaint about the debian installer in January 2008 was the closest, but unresolved). ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
