Comments on: The Joker http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47929 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:44:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47929 On this machine, 24-bit does the same thing. It’s a green wash until I set it to 8-bit, which is acceptable. The video card can do 16-bit color under X, but not 24-bit. Invariably X sets the depth to 24-bit by default and I get a dead black screen, so I always end up forcing it down a peg.

]]> By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47925 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:34:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47925 Also you don’t have the colour depth set right…16bit results in the green hue… set it to 24 and you should be right…I’ve noticed this on just about every laptop i’ve seen so far…

]]> By: Andy C. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47911 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:03:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47911 You can revert to the normal GRUB in Debian by installing the grub-legacy package (GRUB 2 is grub-pc).

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/grub-legacy

]]> By: apo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47899 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47899 I had the same issue when i tried to setup framebuffer support for an old Toshiba Portégé 3110CT with Debian Squeeze.

The “new way” to edit GRUB_GFXMODE and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX in /etc/default/grub did work but also resulted in this unusual greenish view.

So i used the old way and changed GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash vga=788″, with vga=788 for 800×600 resolution.

Miraculously this solved the problem.

]]> By: Bryan http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47894 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:10:05 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47894 So recompile dvtm and move to a saner modifier key :)

]]> By: technologyunit http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47893 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:18:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-joker/#comment-47893 That would be hilarious except for Heath Ledger killing himself and all.

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