[gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

[waltdnes@waltdnes.org]

  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


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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>