Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, R&C wrote: > I have a Trident 3DImage 9750 (AGP) graphics card. > Maybe there is some incompatibility with the X windows software? More than likely, something isn't getting reset properly when switching between console mode and windowing mode. That sort of thing is pretty

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread
At 15:09 27/11/01 -0600, you wrote: >Give some gental taps, as this sounds like a intermittent connection problem >in the monitor to me. A different monitor does the same thing. >It this causes/cures it then you have a connection that is intermintent in >your video system some where. I have

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread Bryan Fields
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Give some gental taps, as this sounds like a intermittent connection problem in the monitor to me. It this causes/cures it then you have a connection that is intermintent in your video system some where. Also you could have a bad degausing coil i

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Rein, > > Just a note on this: > > I was thinking that with this either likely being memory > > or X (though maybe any number of different related files). > > That might be a good place to start. How much RAM is in > > the box, how large a swap partition & which distro release > > & relea

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread
At 20:51 26/11/01 -0800, you wrote: > Just a note on this: > > I was thinking that with this either likely being memory or X >(though maybe any number of different related files). That might >be a good place to start. How much RAM is in the box, how large >a swap partition & which distro relea

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread
At 11:59 27/11/01 +0800, you wrote: >Stupid question, but are you logging in as the same user all the time? > >Has one user got different KDE background colour options? > >Just a stab in the dark - your problems sounds otherwise really >confusing. > >-- >Edward Dekkers (Director) >Triple D Com

Re: colour problem

2001-11-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Just a note on this: > > This green colour does change from one occasion to the > > next in intensity. Leaving the computer off (overnight ) > > usually cures the problem, but changing runlevels (3 to 5) > > a number of times may bring the green colour back. It is > > a total mystery to me.

Re: colour problem

2001-11-26 Thread Edward Dekkers
> This green colour does change from one occasion to the next in intensity. > Leaving the computer off (overnight ) usually cures the problem, but > changing runlevels (3 to 5) a number of times may bring the green colour > back. It is a total mystery to me. Stupid question, but are you logging i

colour problem

2001-11-26 Thread
G'day, I am running rh 7.1 (2.4.9) on a Pentium II 300. Recently a strange problem has started to appear. >From time to time when going into the GUI (Gnome or KDE) the basic background colour changes from black to dark green. In other words things that are normally black (I use terminal windows