From: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Corrupt colours with X.org
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 02:00:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygm37ajpvji.fsf@alpha> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2y3n74w.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2017 23:18:23 +0200")
On 2017-06-28 23:18 +02, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC410M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200M]
It's an Asus X51RL. Also the computer wakes up to a blank screen w/o
wifi. I guess it's the kernel probably, and I'll have to configure and
compile mine.
> Does the Ubuntu live USB image work?
I used to run Lubuntu as my daily driver on this laptop w/o any
problems. Also FreeBSD w/ X11.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-28 23:00 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
2017-06-28 23:00 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp [this message]
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