Ken Moffat wrote: > 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).
What are you doing? If it's xorg -config <fn>, did you add the -retro flag? What driver are you using? What does the Device portion of xorg.conf look like? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
