Re: [xine-user] Xine breaking X desktop colours

[R.J. W. <rj...@he...>]

David Banks wrote:

> When I have Xine running, not even to play anything, just running, my X 
> background image is colourised all weirdly. (Polarised? Solarised? Who 
> knows...) What should normally be blue is bright yellow/pink instead. 
> The bnackground is only colourised wrongly when I have my cursor over 
> the Xine window - if I point at the desktop, it goes back to blue, but 
> then the video stream itself (and the Xine UI) is colourised weirdly! Is 
> there any way I can get both X and Xine to display properly?


This sounds like you have your X-server configured to use an 8-bit display mode 

(which only allows 256 colours on the screen at any one time). This is

not recommended for quality video and certainly your ardware should be 
able to
manage at least 16-bit colour.

This list is not the place to discuss setting up X however so I suggest you
consult the appropriate HOWTO (which I can't find at the moment, damn 
firewalls).
Firstly check you have a 'DefaultDepth 16' somewhere in the Screens 
section and
secondly make sure you are using the correct 'ati' driver (guess at name) as
opposed to the god-slow 'svga'.

-- 
Rich Wareham