Ugh.. I'm having this same problem with my Thinkpad 770E. Did anyone ever figure out how to fix it?
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 19:21, Darin Strait wrote: > 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 >
