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Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 4:49 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
Parent article: The Nouveau driver graduates from staging

I've been using Noveau for a long time. It's been working without hiccups, but the colors are wrong. Tux's beak and feet (look to the upper left corner of this window) are purple, wood is red, and XVideo is mostly black. Text and background solid colors are normal. Does anybody else get this, or do I just have busted hardware?

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Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 7:25 UTC (Sun) by shalem (subscriber, #4062) [Link]

Hi,

I've been using the nouveau driver for a long time too, and colors are fine for me. What I would do if I were you is:
1) Install the proprietary driver (a pain I know), and try to reproduce, if the colors are good there it likely is a nouveau bug and not your hardware
2) Install Fedora 16 or 17 (you don't need to switch distros just clear 4G of hd space, do a livecd to harddisk install, and fully update it)
3) If the bug is still there with a fully up2date Fedora file a bug against xorg-x11-drv-nouveau in Fedora's bugzilla. Then hopefully Ben Skeggs will take a look and eventually fix it (he may first need some help from you to gather various info).

Note this is not meant as a shameless plug for Fedora, I just don't know any other distro which maintains nouveau as actively as Fedora does.

Regards,

Hans

Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 9:06 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Is it that difficult to install the driver from source (git)?

Weird colors

Posted Mar 25, 2012 15:17 UTC (Sun) by balajig81 (guest, #48030) [Link]

The driver is part of the kernel and compiling the kernel and doing a modprobe @ init should do the thing