colors are messed up on the internet

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: colors are messed up on the internet
started by: searayman

Posted by searayman on Feb. 28 2006,01:40

on the internet all the webpages color are different on dsl. For example on dsl the letters in google are, green blue pink green red blue.

on my windows computer the colors of the letters in google are, blue red yellow blue green red.

whast going on?

Posted by _pathos on Feb. 28 2006,02:23

what machine are you using? gfx card? monitor?

Posted by searayman on Feb. 28 2006,22:13

lol i have no clue, and old ibm laptop

Posted by brianw on Feb. 28 2006,22:59

What colour depth are you using for each OS (i.e. 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, etc...)? This can be one reason colours don't look right.

Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 01 2006,13:47

What kind of install?
Try to play with the -vga boot option (F2 and F3).

Posted by searayman on Mar. 02 2006,20:52

i tried all the vga settings under one of the screen reolutions and it didnt fix the colors.

pleease help it realy annoying, also when i installed to harddrive i used grubal

Posted by doobit on Mar. 02 2006,21:03

Which screen resolution did you try? The drfault is 800x600, so that's probably OK, but you may need the cheat code fb800x600 to get you started. You probably also need to rerun xsetup again at this point. After you boot, ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of X then type xsetup.sh That will start the script to setup X again. I'm guessing you need a frame buffered 800x600, but I could be wrong since you don't specifiy which IBM you have.

Posted by searayman on Mar. 02 2006,21:25

i figured out what ibm i have now: ibm thinkpad 600E

so can you please help now that u have that info! :-)

also i started doing some color test to see what colors are messed up, the first colr is what it should be the second is what it shows up on my linux:

blue = green

green = red

reed = blue

yellow = pink

Posted by doobit on Mar. 02 2006,21:56

Boot with dsl vga=788 and see if it works. The spec page for the 600e says it has a Neomagic with 2.5 mb of sgram.

Posted by searayman56 on Mar. 02 2006,22:42

i tried the 788 and the colors work good now, but the screen is shifted to the left and dose not come all the way down, and everyhtign looks a bit blurry

Posted by searayman on Mar. 04 2006,00:42

any help please this is realy annoying