On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > Hi all - I'm kind of new to this list but I've been using Debian since > 2.0 and now I've got a problem I can't figure out. I was running > unstable up until last month with no noticeable problems but I decided, > because I didn't want to get any problems, to down-grade to testing and > update my installation at roughly the same time. > > Well everything works - I've got the 2.4.20 kernel and it runs and X > runs - but, it has this really weird 'rainbow' like color scheme running > through everything. The root window comes up lime-green with the window > borders a lovely shade of pink! The icons in Moz, which used to work > fine, are so 'scrambled' I couldn't tell what they were if I didn't have > them memorized - but they work right when I click on them. > > I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use > -bpp <n> on the command line or change the color depth line in > XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot > in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the > lime-green) and then won't do anything else.
[ snip ] It sounds like you're stuck in some very low color depth ... perhaps you could tell us what kind of hardware you have and post your XF86Config-4 ? Personally I never had any luck with GUI config of X; I use vi. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
