I let my machine upgrade to the new XFree packages tonight, and my X is hosed.
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. 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. (I did fix my pex5 unresolved symbol error, though.) -d
