I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, formerly running Slackware 11. I
installed 12 without incident, fired up KDE. Everything that's
supposed to be blue looks green, even the American flag. In printing
terms, it's like one of the color plates is missing. Reinstalled 11
and it's back to normal. What am I missing?

Jim Bohen

James V. Bohen <jbohen@compuserve.com> trolled:

> I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, formerly running Slackware 11. I
> installed 12 without incident, fired up KDE. Everything that's
> supposed to be blue looks green, even the American flag. In
> printing terms, it's like one of the color plates is missing.
> Reinstalled 11 and it's back to normal. What am I missing?

Perhaps the KDE from 12 is boogered for your system. Why don't you
try replacing the KDE? Either with the one from 11.0 or a different
version off the net? You might try a different windowmanager and
see if there is a colour problem there as well.

cordially, as always,

rm

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:33:11 GMT, rm@justlinux.ca (Rhonda Moffat)
wrote:

>Perhaps the KDE from 12 is boogered for your system. Why don't you
>try replacing the KDE? Either with the one from 11.0 or a different
>version off the net? You might try a different windowmanager and
>see if there is a colour problem there as well.
>
xfce has the same problem.

Jim Bohen

James V. Bohen <jbohen@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Everything that's supposed to be blue looks green, even the American
> flag. In printing terms, it's like one of the color plates is missing.
> Reinstalled 11 and it's back to normal. What am I missing?

This sounds really odd. Are you using 16-bit color depth? What does the
command " xdpyinfo | grep masks" give? Would it help to switch to 24-bit
color depth or 8-bit paletted colors? (edit xorg.conf to try this)

regards Henrik
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James V. Bohen wrote:
> I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, formerly running Slackware 11. I
> installed 12 without incident, fired up KDE. Everything that's
> supposed to be blue looks green, even the American flag. In printing
> terms, it's like one of the color plates is missing. Reinstalled 11
> and it's back to normal. What am I missing?

As Pat wrote, new Slack comes with new modular X. Perhaps it's missing
the 'blue module'

I think you should report the problem to Patrick directly.

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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:19:33 +0000, James V. Bohen wrote:

> I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, formerly running Slackware 11. I installed
> 12 without incident, fired up KDE. Everything that's supposed to be
> blue looks green, even the American flag. In printing terms, it's like
> one of the color plates is missing. Reinstalled 11 and it's back to
> normal. What am I missing?
>
> Jim Bohen

Get the proper video driver nVidia or ATI, etc., and check the xorg.conf
is edited properly. Make sure the same driver that worked under 11 is in
use. I suggest using the proprietary ones, not the stock drivers shipped
with X.

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Peter

Peter <peter@localhost.com> trolled:
>On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:19:33 +0000, James V. Bohen wrote:

>> I have an IBM ThinkPad 600x, formerly running Slackware 11. I
>> installed 12 without incident, fired up KDE. Everything that's
>> supposed to be blue looks green, even the American flag. In
>> printing terms, it's like one of the color plates is missing.
>> Reinstalled 11 and it's back to normal. What am I missing?

>Get the proper video driver nVidia or ATI, etc., and check the
>xorg.conf is edited properly. Make sure the same driver that worked
>under 11 is in use. I suggest using the proprietary ones, not the
>stock drivers shipped with X.

For that matter, he should use the same xorg.conf file for 12.0 that
he used for 11.0.

cordially, as always,

rm
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Realto wrote:

[ . . . ]

>> Get the proper video driver nVidia or ATI, etc., and check the
>> xorg.conf is edited properly. Make sure the same driver that worked
>> under 11 is in use. I suggest using the proprietary ones, not the
>> stock drivers shipped with X.
>
> For that matter, he should use the same xorg.conf file for 12.0 that
> he used for 11.0.

For that matter, he should not.

From UPGRADE.TXT (for Slackware 12.0):
"You will need to generate a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file after upgrading"


Pawel Wlaz

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:11:26 +0000, James V. Bohen wrote:

>>Perhaps the KDE from 12 is boogered for your system. Why don't you
>>try replacing the KDE? Either with the one from 11.0 or a different
>>version off the net? You might try a different windowmanager and
>>see if there is a colour problem there as well.

> xfce has the same problem.

I have tested both KDE and XFCE on a test machine of mine, with no video
problems. This machine uses an Nvidia video card.


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On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:50:20 +0000, Realto trolled:

>>Get the proper video driver nVidia or ATI, etc., and check the
>>xorg.conf is edited properly. Make sure the same driver that worked
>>under 11 is in use. I suggest using the proprietary ones, not the
>>stock drivers shipped with X.

> For that matter, he should use the same xorg.conf file for 12.0 that
> he used for 11.0.

Wrong, n00b.

Look it up.


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