Strange colours problem on iBook

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Mon Sep 26 13:27:02 UTC 2005


On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:07:22 +0100
James Tappin <sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

JT> Most times (at least 90%) when I boot my iBook (Kubuntu - Hoary) I get
JT> screwed up colours in X (ftp://ftp.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/sjt/img2309.jpg).
JT> On hitting ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the server and restart it the
JT> colours come right (ftp://ftp.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/sjt/img2310.jpg). I
JT> don't know if this is a timing issue in Xorg or a sign of incipient
JT> failure in the graphics card. It's definitely not a simple colour
JT> swapping (e.g. displaying BGR instead of RGB).

Oops -- mistyped URLs: Correct values:
ftp://ftp.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/sjt/img_2309.jpg
ftp://ftp.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/sjt/img_2310.jpg

Sorry about that,
	James

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