All Fonts White
David Adcock
Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few weeks ago. But after my [apt-get update / apt-get upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on the screen is rendered in white - on a white background. This includes the login splash screen, all menus on my homepage after login, all buttons, all text on "gnome-terminal" (though xterm is okay because it is white text on a black background), in short ALL WHITE TEXT in any context.
No significant ERRORs in Xorg.0.log.
(Machine came with an OSX 10.6.8 drive - now disconnected, but when reconnected and acting as boot disk still runs fine with the usual desktop.)
Searches like "X White text" or "gdm3 white text" or etc., etc. show no results whatsoever.
Any suggestions? Reinstall from CD?
Thanks,
Dave
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Risto Suominen
2013/1/18, David Adcock <david....@lonestarbio.com>:
>
> Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few weeks ago. But
> after my [apt-get update / apt-get upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on the
> screen is rendered in white - on a white background. This includes the
> login splash screen, all menus on my homepage after login, all buttons, all
> text on "gnome-terminal" (though xterm is okay because it is white text on a
> black background), in short ALL WHITE TEXT in any context.
>
> No significant ERRORs in Xorg.0.log.
>
> (Machine came with an OSX 10.6.8 drive - now disconnected, but when
> reconnected and acting as boot disk still runs fine with the usual
> desktop.)
>
> Searches like "X White text" or "gdm3 white text" or etc., etc. show no
> results whatsoever.
>
> Any suggestions? Reinstall from CD?
>
add "NoAccel" option to xorg.conf as in
http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1175 (nouveau).
Risto
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Ala de Dragón
>> Machine: G5 Mac Tower: Wheezy for PowerPC64; gdm3 desktop.
>>
>> Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few weeks ago. But
>> after my [apt-get update / apt-get upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on
>> the screen is rendered in white - on a white background. This includes
>> the login splash screen, all menus on my homepage after login, all
>> buttons, all text on "gnome-terminal" (though xterm is okay because it
>> is white text on a black background), in short ALL WHITE TEXT in any
>> context.
>>
Maybe is failing transparent layer management...
Saludos.
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mac.lc475
i'm giovanni. Sorry for my bad english.
How you resolved this problem?
after my apt-get update/upgrade my window manager (i3) looks good.
Some programs works fine, but iceweasel/icedove/uzbl render in white
on white backgroud....
thx.
Giovanni
In article <kt7QG...@gated-at.bofh.it>, David Adcock
>Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few weeks ago. But =
>after my [apt-get update / apt-get upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on =
>the screen is rendered in white - on a white background. This includes =
>the login splash screen, all menus on my homepage after login, all =
>buttons, all text on "gnome-terminal" (though xterm is okay because it =
>is white text on a black background), in short ALL WHITE TEXT in any =
>
>No significant ERRORs in Xorg.0.log.
>
>reconnected and acting as boot disk still runs fine with the usual =
>desktop.)
>
>Searches like "X White text" or "gdm3 white text" or etc., etc. show no =
>
>Any suggestions? Reinstall from CD?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
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Dan DeVoto
What graphics driver are you using? I had a similar problem on a Sawtooth with an ATI 9000 with the text displaying as a very light purple. The only solution I found was to use the NoAccel option for the "radeon" driver in my xorg.conf. Of course, after that I had a slow as molasses desktop.
Regards,
Dan
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David Adcock
When I originally posted this bug, I thought that certainly there must be some obscure gdm3 config file where admin can change "White" to "Black, "FFFFFF" to "000000", "Invisible" to "Visible", or some other such selection. Maybe a checkbox for "Make Text Readable". If so, it seems to have eluded us all.
I installed "KDE-Full", but in retrospect, I think "KDE-Standard" would be a better choice. Not so much junk attached.
Thanks again to all!
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Dan DeVoto
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
in your xorg.conf instead of "NoAccel" "True". This solved the font issue for me and preserved 2d acceleration.
--- On Fri, 1/18/13, Dan DeVoto <dand...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What graphics driver are you using? I had a similar
> problem on a Sawtooth with an ATI 9000 with the text
> displaying as a very light purple. The only solution I
> found was to use the NoAccel option for the "radeon" driver
> in my xorg.conf. Of course, after that I had a slow as
> molasses desktop.
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Rick Thomas
I have the same problem, but by default there is no xorg.conf file...
Can I somehow generate one for my configuration?
Thanks!
Rick
Dan DeVoto
sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
Replace lightdm with your login manager if different. Then enter:
sudo Xorg -configure
sudo cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
In other distros, it created the xorg.conf.new file in my home folder, but wherever it is it'll say in the Xorg -configure output. Now you can restart X with startx.
One caveat, when you halt X your console's text might become garbled, so you'll have to type blind. This appears to be a Debian bug.
--- On Sat, 2/23/13, Rick Thomas <rbth...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I have the same problem, but by default there is no
> xorg.conf file...
>
> Can I somehow generate one for my configuration?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
>
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote:
>
> > Just to add one last thing, with the radeon driver you
> can use:
> >
> > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
> >
> > in your xorg.conf instead of "NoAccel" "True".
> This solved the font issue for me and preserved 2d
> acceleration.
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Rick Thomas
On Feb 23, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Dan DeVoto wrote:
> One caveat, when you halt X your console's text might become
> garbled, so you'll have to type blind. This appears to be a Debian
> bug.
Does anyone know what causes it?
Does anyone have a fix?
Has anyone filed a bugreport?
Rick
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ht...@shaw.ca
I have no idea which package to file a bug against - but I've seen it happen with every kind of video configuration, including
the built in chaos-control-framebuffer on a 7600. Is it an X problem? is it a framebuffer problem? is it a console problem? a
font problem?
The only workaround I've found in the last decade is, restart X or never start it in the first place (because everything is fine
before X starts).
Peter Rooney