Colour Problem

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Colour Problem
started by: sentai

Posted by sentai on Jan. 26 2006,21:09

Hi i'm new to the forums. I'm basicly trying to teach myself as much about computers as i can, i've been studying all kinds of stuff for about two years now. I've decided its time for linux, now a live disk seems best (why i picked DSL

) how ever..when i load up fluxbox all the colours are screwed up. I messed around for a while and managed to get colors normal IF i set the res to 600X300 (i think) anyway i can get the colours right in 800x400? or maybe higher?

thanks

sentai

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Jan. 26 2006,23:03

I think this usually happens at the higher resolutions on the intel i810 chipset. Change the resolution to 800x600 @16bit color. That should work. Otherwise, if you want a higher resolution you need to install xfree86. It can be found in the system section of mydsl.

Posted by sentai on Jan. 27 2006,18:49

Ok thanks for the quick and helpful reply

i'll try that later.

thanks again.

sentai.

Posted by bbdanix on Jan. 28 2006,12:22

Hello,
I have the same probleme, with my i810 chipset.
I have a wrong color on 1024x768x32 and no icons.
But in 600x480x16 it's work well.
I tried to install xfree.dsl and i adopted the instructions in xfree.dsl.info with all the XFree86_Config_files,
but "startx" create erros with all configurations.
How can I do , please to have a resolution highter, that works fine ?

(I work on LiveCD)
thanks.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 29 2006,05:07

Xfree86 is still the best option, but this can be done from the base livecd:

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to exit X-Windows

Type

xsetup.sh

and choose 1024x768x8bit

type

nano .xserverrc

add

-swaprgb

to the X command line, but before the "-I" command.

Save your changes and exit nano

type

startx

to re-enter X-Windows