On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > mga driver is installed. > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new > xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the > resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy > compared to the "vesa" driver. There is nothing wrong with my > CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver > at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other > "ati" driver yet to finish?
The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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