Other Help Topics :: Photos on web pages are too dark

WHAT IS THE MATTER? All I want is pictures to look the way they're supposed to rather than unnaturally darkened, but none of the solutions I try ever work.

Why does any old thing work for all of you while it seems NOTHING I do is ever right? No matter how precisely I follow your instructions, these things don't work right.

Look, all I need is some step-by-step instructions that will work. Is that too much to ask? I'm not trying to cure cancer - I'm just trying to make pictures look right. I'm just trying to use the Information Superhighway, and I keep running into speed traps. I need to blow through these speed traps.

I'm just pointing out that the .info contains information to get you started, thus saving your time and other members' time.
Your hardware is known for its problems afaik, and because each of us do not have experience, etc. with everyone's setups.
So, I gave suggestions.

Writing in caps while not referring any input to the suggestions doesn't really help on either side :/

You don't really need to shout in every post. We are trying to help you know.
I've never seen the problem you're describing, dark pictures, in Xvesa or any other configuration.

Back on track, here's your xorg.conf edited, try it:
http://pastebin.com/m4f960996

I just added Pixmap 24 to Serverflags, allocated some more videoram, and a DefaultDepth line in the Screen section. This should work for you.
If not, try changing DefaultDepth to 16. And post Xorg.0.log in both cases.

I'm terribly sorry for being a bad sport. I owe everyone here a big apology for allowing my frustration to give me an inappropriate attitude.

I'm setting aside the issue of dark-tinted photos and videos for now and will revisit the issue later.

I figured out what my problem was in setting up the printing. (The export command needs to be used in a NON-ROOT shell.) I now know how to set up the printer reliably and have posted my procedure both on my web site and in the DSL Tips and Tricks forum.

Also, I went back to DSL version 3.3, since that's the version the book was written for. I backed up my files and reformatted and reinstalled everything. (I realize this probably wasn't necessary, but I was afraid that my tinkering had messed things up.)

I'm still trying to figure out how to keep the printer settings through the powerdown and powerup processes so that I don't have to reinstall the printer every time I boot up.

I will tackle the printer issue before I try anything else. Not being able to instantly print the great advice I'm getting rubbed me the wrong way, because it required copying it to another file, saving it to disk, booting up my Windows computer, and printing it up from there. And I let this speed trap get to me.

I'll revisit the overly darkened photos and videos later.

By the way, I REALLY APPRECIATE the small size of DSL. If you think you've really messed things up, it only takes a few minutes to install this OS. Windows won't install this quickly, and even most other Linux distros are big enough to require well over an hour or even several hours to install.

original here.