[ltp] [Fwd: Debian Sarge, XFree86 4.2, Thinkpad 770ED, 2.4.19-686 (unpatched)]

[Neal Lippman]

I have exactly the same problem with my thinkpad 770ED - X worked fine
at version 4.1.0 under debian woody, but when I upgraded to sarge with X
4.2.1 I have a similar hosing. On the starting screen with kdm running,
the background looks solarized as Darin reports.

Once I log in, the background is a fairly homegenous blue (albeit an
ugly shade). However, title bars on windows (KDE) and buttons, the
kpanel display, etc, show stripes across them that are just plain wrong.
Icons on the desk top appear pixilated, as well.

I've tried commenting out most of the loaded modules in my XF86Config-4,
just to see if one of them is broken, without any improvement.

My XF config file uses the "trident" driver, and for the monitor I have
HorizSync = 28-49 and VertRefresh as 43-72, with DPMS on as a option (I
wonder if I should try getting rid of DPMS?). I am running at a
DefaultDepth of 16, 1024x768 resolution.

nl


Any thoughts/help? 
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 06:52, Darin Strait wrote:
> I let my machine upgrade to the new XFree debian packages the other
> night, and my X is hosed. Has anyone else had trouble running X 4.2.1 on
> their 770?
>  
> X does run (it might even be a little bit faster :-/), but it seems as
> if it's picked an improper color depth for the hardware -- the display
> looks solarized, sort of. The colors are wrong, but I can manipulate
> windows and my familiarity with my WindowMaker menu lets me remember
> where my stuff is. Clearly, this needs to be fixed, though. Things seem
> less insane at 8 bit (maybe I just don't remember what 8 bit is like and
> it's actually correct) than 16 bit or 24 bit. When I dock and switch
> XF86Config files, my 3dfx card runs normally.
> 
> The card still runs fine in Windows 2000. (I dual-boot.)
> 
> XFree doesn't seem to care what color depth I run at -- at each depth I
> tried I find that my colors are slightly differently wrong. For example,
> my xload, which is usually a black graph on a white background is now a
> grey graph on a black background. At a different color depth, the colors
> would be different, but still wrong.
> 
> One thing I notice is that what should be gradual fades from one color
> to another, through many subtle shades, (like title bars, or the
> splashscreen from KDE) have been reduced to repeating patterns of
> unsubtle shades.
> 
> What to do? I'm only moderately clued-in as far as X goes, but I've
> dpkg-reconfigured and apt-get remove/apt-get updated a few things with
> absolutely no progress.
> 
> 
> tia,
> -darin
> 
> 
> 
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