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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Corrupt colours with X.org
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:18:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2y3n74w.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygmmv8t3rgp.fsf@alpha>

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Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> writes:

> On 2017-06-19 18:15 +03, Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-06-19 13:27 +02, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> I have tried installing GuixSD on my machine, an old Asus laptop, and
>>>> have completed the installation successfully.  But I had a problem with
>>>> some applications in X.org: when I set a bg image, and opened an
>>>> application (i.e. xterm), the colors of the bg image went weird, and
>>>> looked pinkish-reddish.
>>>
>>> Could you take a screenshot and post it to this list (shrink the image
>>> so that it’s ~300K max)?
>>
>> I had to switch to my previous OS for the moment.  I'll be able to retry
>> installing in the coming days though---I'll report here if the problem
>> persists or not---and also to debug if it persists as I'll have a spare
>> machine handy.
>
> I've been able to reproduce the issue, the linked video demonstrates
> what happens [1].  When I open an xterm, the background becomes reddish,
> the IceCat window has corrupt colours, wicd-gtk window has instead
> correct colours.  The window manager is TWM, but the issue persists on
> DWM too.  Find attached my configuration
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZoPeoVPI8g

Can you post the output of "lspci |grep -i vga"? Which laptop is it?

Does the Ubuntu live USB image work?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-28 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-18 14:30 Corrupt colours with X.org Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-06-19 11:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-19 15:15   ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-06-28  0:07     ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-06-28  0:12       ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-06-28 21:18       ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-06-28 23:00         ` Göktuğ Kayaalp

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