Okay, so does this sound familiar to anyone else? Here's a snapshot of the crummy video:
http://folk.federated.com/~dochood/doom_snap1.png And here are a couple snapshots of my emaculate desktop! http://folk.federated.com/~dochood/debian_sparc1.png http://folk.federated.com/~dochood/debian_sparc2.png As you can see, my desktop looks just hunky-dory, yet "lxdoom", as well as other games, come out really crummy. Some 3D programs seem to look okay, as far as I can remember. I'd appreciate it if the tip below rings a bell with someone, and they know how to fix this. Doc Sewell On Friday 08 November 2002 06:23 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:22:54PM -0600, Daniel 'Doc' Sewell wrote: > > This one works for me at 1280x1024x24bit color. I had to jump through > > hoops to get it to work, but it works okay now. > > > > I've tried to run some things like LXDOOM and PENGUINCOMMAND, but they > > don't work very well. I get these washed out colors. No one has been > > able to help me fix it yet. The desktop looks pretty nice, though. I > > have transparent menus and kicker in KDE working, and it looks really > > cool. > > The washed out colors are almost certainly due to the code picking a > visual with an unexpected gamma correction value. When the data goes > into the RAMDAC, it can go through either an uncorrected path, or one > that adjusts for the (presumed) properties of the monitor. Most people > prefer a bigger gamma correction value... > > There should be a way to set it, but unfortunately I don't know how to > do that. > > Jon Leonard
