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Chrys349

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From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

[solved] abnormal colors with nvidia proprietary driver

After I've installed the "nvidia" and "nvidia-utils" packages, I've executed "nvidia-xconfig" to generate the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". And after I rebooted, all colors were awful. White color was so bright that my eyes hurt, all blue colors became light blue and very bright, all shades of grey close to white became completely white, and basically every color was messed up and so bright that it rendered me dizzy after a while, no joking.  And all colors were abnormal regardless of what values I tried in color correction from "nvidia-settings". I had to uninstall "nvidia" and "nvidia-utils" and revert to "nouveau" by creating the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-nouveau.conf" and adding these lines to it:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Nvidia card"
    Driver "nouveau"
EndSection 

... and now, all colors are perfectly normal.
I had the exact same problem several months aho when I was using Debian Testing with the nvidia proprietary driver, and I've asked on Debian Forums about it and on some other forums, but no one knew anything about it.

Last edited by Chrys349 (2011-11-26 16:44:36)

Chrys349

Member

From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

Re: [solved] abnormal colors with nvidia proprietary driver

I found that the problem with abnormal colors occurs not only in linux, but even in windows xp after I install the nvidia driver

the only solution I found so far is to reduce the brightness in nvidia settings, but the colors are still abnormal, only not so much as before

therefore, I decided to remove the nvidia driver and use nouveau instead, it's my only real solution to get perfectly normal colors on the screen

I declared this topic [solved] because I stopped wasting time trying to find out what's wrong with nvidia drivers.

For years I thought that my Acer lcd monitor was incapable of displaying light greys, but only recently when I definitively switched from windows to linux, I found that the nvidia driver is displaying white instead of light grey, light blue instead of blue, etc...

Last edited by Chrys349 (2011-11-26 16:58:35)

TeaCult

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Registered: 2022-03-16

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] abnormal colors with nvidia proprietary driver

Yeah I am struggling with same thing
There are Full RGB and Limited RGB settings in both nvidia X server settings and Monitor settings
Xorg does not work well with 10 bit color depth so it is 8 bit ... However montior supoorts 10 bit.
Things get messy. Black level stabilisation is like gamma but it is not.  Xrandr brightness and nvidia-x-server settings brightness has different effects.
Monitor brightness is just a dimming of backlight...

It took my days and hours trying to adjust something good that works good with both linux and windows.  It really is terrible ...

Last edited by TeaCult (2022-03-26 07:02:32)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,944

Re: [solved] abnormal colors with nvidia proprietary driver

Don't necrobump 11 year old solved threads. It's *highly* unlikely that your issue is the same as it was 11 years ago. If you want actual help make a new post with details of your system.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.