I am having the same problem with 7.10. I have a very old and dark HP D2808 monitor. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I have set this line Gamma 1.6 to adjust the gamma correction.
However, in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, XVideo does not respect the X Window system-wide gamma correction setting. As a workaround, I can use xvattr to turn up the brightness, like so: xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v 24 This is of course an imperfect substitute, because brightness != gamma, however it makes eg. RealPlayer XVideo and Totem Xvideo videos watchable. Despite the workaround, I feel that it is very important that the bug be fixed and XVideo be made to respect gamma values and other settings. -- totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST to wrong default value (Xv movies on i810/i945 have horrible colour/gamma) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32963 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
