Mailing List Archive: Everything went dark!

Everything went dark!

Sep 14, 2004, 10:10 PM

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Ever since I went to gentoo, I've had a problem with the colors in games --
they're all way too dark. Gnibbles, which I played many times on RH7.3
with the same hardware, is so dark I can barely make out the bonii, and
really cannot see my player. Nethack is unplayable because I cannot
see the passages.

Any idea what to look for, what to tell you, what to tweak?

The video card is an on-motherboard ATI radeon. The machine is
dual Xeon, 2GB RAM.

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Re: Everything went dark! [ In reply to ]

bertbuchholz at gmx

Sep 15, 2004, 6:32 PM

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On Tue 14.09 22:10, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Ever since I went to gentoo, I've had a problem with the colors in
> games -- they're all way too dark. Gnibbles, which I played many
> times on RH7.3 with the same hardware, is so dark I can barely make
> out the bonii, and really cannot see my player. Nethack is unplayable
> because I cannot see the passages.

You could try "xgamma", to raise your gamma-settings to a higher value
and thus making the screen appear brighter. Or use the knobs on your
display. ;-)

Bert

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Re: Everything went dark! [ In reply to ]

kogorman at gmail

Sep 30, 2004, 6:23 PM

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Thank you, thank you. That was the ticket.

Xgamma, that is. I had already maxed out my monitor controls.
I found happiness at a gamma of 2.0. It washes out my other windows
very noticeably, but if I just use it for game play, I get joy.

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:32:28 +0200, Bert Buchholz <bertbuchholz@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue 14.09 22:10, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Ever since I went to gentoo, I've had a problem with the colors in
> > games -- they're all way too dark. Gnibbles, which I played many
> > times on RH7.3 with the same hardware, is so dark I can barely make
> > out the bonii, and really cannot see my player. Nethack is unplayable
> > because I cannot see the passages.
>
> You could try "xgamma", to raise your gamma-settings to a higher value
> and thus making the screen appear brighter. Or use the knobs on your
> display. ;-)
>
> Bert
>

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