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

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:52:21 -0500, 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.

As a quick workaround I would suggest you to grab the xserver-xfree86
package from woody (4.1.0) to get back to a working X, search in the
Xpert mailing list for this problem and report it if it seems to be
new.

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