[SOLVED]Lucid Puppy 5.25, screen colors wrong, slightly blue

[Sp3ctre18]

So I finally powered on my old Dell GX270 again, on which I had installed Lucid 5.25, full install. The PC should be stock hardware since it's either from my school or a friend's business, just my own hard drive.

Grub menu, windows boot menu, XP, they're all fine, but when Lucid loads, the screen is a bit dark, maybe a bit blue tinted, but NOT missing red or green. When Puppy shuts down, the text that I believe should be white looks green-tinted.

I looked around for settings and found a gamma calibration thingy in the X config gui. I can barely see the contrasts in the black and blue boxes. I'm supposed to edit percent values for RGB, all already set at 100. Any change to red and green does nothing and it resets to 100. Blue seems to already be at a very low value despite showing 100. Lowering blue to numbers like 1 or 10 result in little difference, but higher numbers up to 99 over-saturate with blue.

I know I may end up updating to a newer Puppy, but not now, there are other things I need to think about for this PC. Hoping these an easy fix, it's otherwise already set up. Thanks!

[mostly_lurking]

Perhaps the graphics setup came up wrong? Exit X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), type "xorgwizard" at the command prompt, go through the setup and choose another driver; maybe the "vesa" driver if you aren't using that one already. (I once had a problem where the screen was way too dark. I can't remember whether that was on Lucid or Wary, but experimenting with the driver settings eventually fixed it.)

It might also be useful to post your computer's specs, especially which graphics hardware it has; someone more experienced than me might then be able to give you better suggestions.

[bigpup]

Probably trying to use the wrong graphics driver.
Try running xorgwizard and choosing the Vesa driver.
exit to prompt.
type xorgwizard.
select the vesa driver.
select a resolution you know should work.
Run the test.
If test is OK.
Close xorgwizard.

Your full install could just be a bad install.
It does happen sometimes.
I would run Gparted.
Repartition and format the hard drive.
Use ext3 for the format.

Do the full install over fresh.

Lucid 5.25 was a little buggy and more of a bug testing release of Lucid puppy.
If you like Lucid. I strongly suggest you try the latest version.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461

[Sp3ctre18]

Wish I Linuxed more to remember trying those dang vesa drivers... I had just done something similar in Ubuntu but here I was forgetting again!

I had only done the probe and picked from there. That did it, thanks so much you guys!

I'll definitely remember to check out that new Lucid, thanks bigpup

[bigpup]

May be a better driver you could use.

In Quickpet->drivers tab
Run "click here to test your graphics card"
What driver is recommended?
If not what you are using, try using that driver.

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Sp3ctre18.

I run (amongst many others) the version of Lucid bigpup is referring to; 5.2.8.7. rerwin (Richard Erwin) has performed a minor miracle with this, retaining Lucid's original lightness and speed, along with many, many updated components. Aside from the single fact that you cannot run an up-to-date browser, due to the age of the GNU/Linux 'C' library (the glibc), it's still just about the most responsive Puppy I've come across. I run it on an elderly, heavily upgraded 2004/5 Compaq Presario business-class PC, with a dual-core Athlon 64, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD....and it runs like greased lightning!

The newest Chrome browser it will run is version 26 (!); current version is 52. It does, however, remind me of why I fell in love with Chrome back in 2008 when it was first launched.....it's so snappy & responsive, and very, very fast!

It's certainly one Pup to recommend.


Mike.