From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N0Q1l-0002DP-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:30:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FA4EE081F; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78245E081F for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C9EB4F4F for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:11 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: xGVYiZYa9w2O3ARDVDSckeN/KM8mKLKpgb8YK5L0gQDt 1256088608 Received: from [192.168.31.12] (cpe-069-134-183-088.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.183.88]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0575924DA4 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20091021005506.GB4883@waltdnes.org> References: <20091021005506.GB4883@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:06 -0400 Message-ID: <1256088606.489979.149.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4f5a7c95-fa62-4f2f-bcb9-fca91d4a94e8 X-Archives-Hash: a998112ad2e55df3d9e6a18a4a30597c On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote: > Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't > stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I > switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true > text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip > to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc. When I do, I find that the colours > on my current machine's display are corrupted. Clicking on a window > will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks > like colour confetti. > > Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2 > Duo cpu. "lspci -v" shows the integrated video controller twice, as > both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so... > > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM > Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information > Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel > Kernel modules: intel-agp > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 > Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] > I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] > Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 > Enable- > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two.