On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: > I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a > 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen > colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work > fine, and the colors are fine, but then I kill X and go back to text > mode, and the colors in text mode are all wrong, like I'm using a > dying CRT that's not firing right. I go back to X, and the colors are > fine again. Back to text mode - same deal. Is X setting some > variable wrong when it shuts off, or do I need to tweak something? > Using manual controls on the LCD menu don't help at all. Anyone run > into this before and might know what to do about this?
Maybe the video card? I had something similar to this happening on my desktop with an old nvidia card. Throughout the years, shutting down X may give one of the following: a) business as usual, nothing wrong. b) the computer thinking the screen is bigger than it actually is: the upper left corner is okay, but the 3 right most columns and the bottom row (of my 80x25 text display) is off the screen. The text is a bit bigger than it ought to be. c) blank screen. The computer still responds: I can "type" xinit without seeing anything and get back into an X session. Just nothing is displayed on the screen. d) funky colors on the screen, which may also accompany b). I never did figure out what is wrong. The behaviour is transient: if I just start X again, and then shut-off, it not always give the same problem. I suspect it is the video card because I remember noting that it behaved better after a certain version of nVidia driver. But I can't be certain because the bug is awfully un-reproducible. This probably doesn't help much... but I just want to throw in my two cents. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
