my gui is kinda all blue
Forum: Laptops
Topic: my gui is kinda all blue
started by: gekkokid
Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,21:12
my gui is kinda all blueish - when i load from the CD in boot: fb800x600 it works fine, but when i changed the lilo.conf file to vga=771 e.g. 800x600 at 256 colors and booted from hdi get the small pengium
the gui is starts and the screen is all blue and sometimes unable to see the text on the screen, is their a way to add the fb800x600 into a config file so on start up its boots correctly?
i have tried 800x600 at 16 colors and it just doesnt load up
Posted by gekkokid on April 03 2004,11:00
can any1 say anything even if it just dont know? install? thanks 
Posted by cbagger01 on April 04 2004,06:10
I don't know Try 640x480x256
You may have to play around with different resolutions and color depths until you can find one that will work with your system. Don't rule out HIGHER color depths as they sometimes will work when lower ones fail.
Also, I am assuming that you are using the xfbdev XServer from the menu?
Posted by roberts on April 04 2004,06:46
I am confused by your post. First you state that when you boot from CD with fb800x600 all is fine. Well that is a video mode of 788. But then you change it down to 256 colors. Yikes! That would look awful. Why did you change it from the 788. You did say that it was fine.
If you are using a current version that 788 mode would had been passed to lilo on the hard drive install so it would already be there. So, if it was 791 then you are using an old version. If so then try putting it to 788. Or better yet might you get a newer version.
Posted by gekkokid on April 04 2004,13:03
i am confused aswell - i think i have sorted it now - but sometimes the screen turns out all blue, i have reinstalled it again and it seemed to be working fine but recently when i booted up to xwindows the screen was all bluelish - i just rebooted and it was fine, sorry for the confusion
Posted by bostonrue on April 06 2004,04:42
i know this is a dumb posibilty, but have u tested another monitor? or that monitor elsewhere?
Posted by gekkokid on April 06 2004,17:16
its on a laptop, but still a good idea