Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Crazy colors on 1st gen MacBook Pro

[Grant G. <gra...@ya...>]

Thanks for everyone's responses.  This evening after work I'll reset the P/NV-RAM and SMC and report back whether it worked.  Thanks again!

Grant


----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Aumueller <au...@re...>
To: mac...@li...
Sent: Friday, July 6, 2007 8:58:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Crazy colors on 1st gen MacBook Pro


When I once had a similar problem on a Macbook Pro C2D, resetting the 
parameter ram or the SMC fixed it. I think Cmd-Option-P-R is the key 
combination for doing the first during power-up. But you might want to check 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238 and 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319-en.

On Friday 06 July 2007, Grant Generaux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone might have any thoughts on a rather strange thing
> that's currently going on with my MacBook Pro screen.  I have a 1st gen,
> 15" MacBook Pro, with the ATI  Radeon X1600.  I've previously successfully
> installed Fedora Core 6, but wanted to try installing Ubuntu 7.04.  I
> installed reFit and Bookcamp, and then installed as normal using the
> alternate install disk. Everything installed fine, except the Xserver
> didn't come up (as mentioned on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty/),
> so I did a dist-upgrade and then followed the instructions on the
> Feisty wiki page for installing and configuring the ATI (fglrx) drivers.
> Right after the configuration, I was able to 'startx' and the GUI came up
> beautifully, resolution was correct, everything looked great. However, the
> next time I rebooted, the screen looked like this
> (http://flickr.com/photos/robbyt/537741087/), and remains that way
> regardless of whether I boot into Ubuntu or boot into Mac OS X.  I then
> tried reconfiguring the xserver using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg,
> trying to reconfigure once for the open-source ati driver, and once for
> plain old vesa.  Neither helps the problem.
>
> After that I blew away all the partitions (it was a fresh OS X install
> anyway) and reinstalled OS X, but the problem still remains.  I've also
> tried installing Fedora Core 6, since I know it was able to correctly
> detect my monitor correctly before, but this didn't help either.
>
> I have two observations that might help.  1. Everything looks absolutely
> fine on an external monitor, so the video card seems unfazed.  And 2., all
> the white-on-black text has the strange fringe color, except inside the OS
> X terminal.  There it's perfectly clear and normal.  Any ideas or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Please let me know if I can
> provide any additional info that might help.  Thanks!
>
> Grant
>
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