HP Elitebook 840 G1 - Incorrect colour palette

thegreatrazz · 2019-06-09 09:04:48

Hi all.

I've been trying Arch Linux on and off on various devices and decided to finally take the plunge and installed it on my daily driver, an HP EliteBook 840 G1 with Intel Graphics.

After I installed GNOME and used it as I normally would for the day, I've noticed the colour palette goes off at random. It looks as if I XORed an image on top of another in Photoshop...

Here is photo of my screen compared to a screenshot.

https://feen.us/m0e0r1.jpg
https://feen.us/v4aq6i.png

I've seen this issue on boards before (including this one... to bad I can't find it when I'm actually writing it), but they never seem to have solved the issue.

This affects both X.org, Wayland and the Linux frame buffer console. It can be temporarily fixed by quickly waiting (randomly), rapidly changing TTYs or changing the resolution back and forth (in X.org, Wayland just messes things up further).

From other boards, I've also read that it only affects the built-in display (eDP-1), but I haven't confirmed it yet (by plopping it in my dock and wait).

This is quite an inconvenience, since I prefer using Wayland, this usually means a system restart. Meaning saving my work, rebooting my laptop, opening up dev tools, make sure what I saved still compiles and then get back into the mood to do work.

Lastly, this happens on more than just Arch Linux, I've been using live environments like Clonezilla and Gparted Live to do some working around, they also suffer the same ailment.

Moderator edit. Converted over sized images to url links

Thanks.

Last edited by ewaller (2019-06-09 15:10:12)

ewaller · 2019-06-09 15:11:07

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#1 2019-06-09 09:04:48

HP Elitebook 840 G1 - Incorrect colour palette

#2 2019-06-09 15:11:07

Re: HP Elitebook 840 G1 - Incorrect colour palette

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