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Re: Washed out colors...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lopes)
Thu Mar 21 02:41:30 1996
To: Brad Porter <bwporter@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:29:37 -0500.
<199603201329.IAA21345@trailhead.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:34:13 EST
From: Chris Lopes <lopes@MIT.EDU>
about the washed out colors thing... i really have no idea, nor the time
right now to look into it... but i have this same problem, and I'm
running NetBSD
there is a file in my Public directory on athena called
'remote_color.gif'
which is an image of 2 zephyrs, side by side, one from a local zwgc, the
other from a remote machine that's displaying on my display
the left one is remote, the right one is local
if you bring it up with xv, you can clearly see that the only color
which is getting messed up is red
on the LOCAL one, red is (rgb): 251 20 65
on the REMOTE one, red is: 255 0 0
please check this file out.. it's interesting
so, for some reason, red is not "pure" locally, as i see it
my machine statistics are at: http://goody.mit.edu/stats.html
thanx
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> Subject: Washed out colors...
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:29:37 EST
> From: Brad Porter <bwporter@MIT.EDU>
>
> I have noticed my standard colors under X seem washed out.
> The strange thing is that if I open an Xterm from another host
> onto my computer and run commands like xsetroot -solid blue, the
> colors look different on my screen.
>
> Basically, "xsetroot -solid blue" run from my local machine
> gives a lighter color than "xsetroot -solid blue" run from a
> xterm window exported from another machine.
>
> A friend of mine tried it, and it gave the same results for him.
> I am using 1.2.13elf with the standard XFree86 distribution that came
> with Slackware 3.0.0. Try it, I think you will see the same thing.
> I have the Diamond Stealth s3 accelerator.
>
> The rgb.txt file I have is identical on the local and remote hosts.
>
> Does anyone know why this is, or how I can fix it?
>
> Please cc your reply to bwporter@mit.edu.
>
> Thanks!
> Brad Porter
>
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