Strange Colors on iBook

James Cass cassj at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 13 06:31:16 MST 2004


> In other words, the problem seems to solve itself!
Same thing happened to me on my iBook (dual UISB 600MHz), and my 
PowerBook (Alum 1.5GHz).

-James

On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:40 AM, Philippe Mayor wrote:

> 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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