[Solved] Xorg upgrade messes up colors?

grail · 2006-02-20 00:43:44

I just did a 'Pacma -Syu' and upgraded xorg. It seemed to fo fine but when I restarted X my colours were all messed up.

I get this now when starting conky:

Conky: can't parse X color 'blue'
Conky: can't parse X color 'black'
Conky: can't parse X color 'black'
Conky: can't parse X color 'white'

also my urxvt colours are screwed up.

Any suggestions?

stonecrest · 2006-02-20 00:49:19

Your RgbPath in your xorg.conf is wrong.

grail · 2006-02-20 01:02:24

OK so what should it be? All the docs about xorg 7 say it should be '/usr/share/X11/rgb' which it is and was working with the previous xorg 7 upgrade I did. But after todays upgrade '/usr/share/X11/rgb' does not seem to be there?

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep rgb
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"

Cerebral · 2006-02-20 01:08:09

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=18928

grail · 2006-02-20 01:13:45

Thanks I did that but it required a reboot as restarting X didn't seem to work? Anyway it's now fixed. Thanks for the help.

ralvy · 2006-02-20 06:36:46

I find that after upgrading the way the front page said to upgrade, I can't load X anymore. I'm told the i810 driver is missing. After reruning xorgconfig, this error persists.

JGC · 2006-02-20 08:13:05

The missing i810 driver is because you have to install drivers for your system. By default, only the vesa driver is installed.

ralvy · 2006-02-20 15:28:27

JGC wrote:

The missing i810 driver is because you have to install drivers for your system. By default, only the vesa driver is installed.

Ah, okay. Never had to do that with previous xorgs before. I'll grab the source and compile it today.

ralvy · 2006-02-20 15:59:16

JGC wrote:

The missing i810 driver is because you have to install drivers for your system. By default, only the vesa driver is installed.

I see that Arch supplies me with that driver. I downloaded it and have x again. However I find that KDE is missing some elements. Can't get it to show me a background image or color, nor can it show me apps in the task bar anymore. I'll have to check on this stuff later at work when I have time.

And the system is as slow as can be.

ralvy · 2006-02-21 17:10:37

ralvy wrote:

JGC wrote:
The missing i810 driver is because you have to install drivers for your system. By default, only the vesa driver is installed.
I see that Arch supplies me with that driver. I downloaded it and have x again. However I find that KDE is missing some elements. Can't get it to show me a background image or color, nor can it show me apps in the task bar anymore. I'll have to check on this stuff later at work when I have time.
And the system is as slow as can be.

All the above problems went away when I simply restored a recent working image of Arch (pre-xorg7), and then did a simple

# pacman -Syu
# xorgconfig

followed by making sure the rgb and modules paths were correct in xorg.conf and installing the Arch-supplied driver for my i810 onboard video. Now I have a very fast system with KDE 3.5.1 fully functional.

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