Strange Colors on iBook

Philippe Mayor philippe.mayor at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 01:40:06 MST 2004


Hello Nathan!
I had the same problem on my G4 350 Mhz AGP when I first installed. I
then logged out and logged in in Gnome (instead of KDE) and the
problem was solved.
When I now log back in KDE, the colors are right.
In other words, the problem seems to solve itself!

/Phil

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:45:17 -0800, Nathan Cashion <ldsnately at mac.com> wrote:
> I just finished installing YDL 4.0 on my iBook clamshell.
> 
> For some reason the colors seem to be messed up.  It seems that the
> blues are coming out very red and orange-ish, like I'm on Mars.
> 
> A similar thing happened recently when I installed YDL 4.0 on my Pismo.
> Again, everything was reddish, but at first I thought that was just the
> default color scheme.  So I changed the hardware settings to choose the
> correct monitor and video card types.  Now I realize that it was fixed
> after I changed the display preferences because the next time I started
> X, everything was blue.
> 
> I've tried changing the display settings on the iBook.  It's set at
> 800x600.  I changed the bit depth to "thousands" but that still didn't
> fix it.
> 
> Am I totally wrong and is everything supposed to be red?
> Or is there something else I need to fix?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Nately
> 
> PS  I vaguely remember some recent postings that may have answered my
> question, but I couldn't find them within the last month in the
> archives.
> 
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