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imide

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Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

My second monitor has a really annoying yellow tint on it. I have a 1070 and I am running NVIDIA driver 470.129.06 according to NVIDIA X Sever Settings. This issue is only for Arch, as I dualboot Windows and it's completely fine on that. Please help, this is so annoying.

ffarps

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

what desktop environment are you using?

imide

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

Gnome

ffarps

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

check if you have any night color setting

imide

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

i dont

ffarps

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

can you post  a screenshot of the  night color settings?

Last edited by ffarps (2022-06-15 14:50:46)

seth

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

The actual monitor model might be relevant, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles
Also is this wayland or X11 and does the monitor have a "yellow tint" w/ other environments? (eg. try an openbox session)

Finally, we need a better description than "yellow tint".
I assume just means it's at 6500K and not overly blue…?
Because normally outputs are dialed waaaaaaay into blue so if the metric is "in relation to the other output" the other output might actually be the problem by *lacking* a proper ICC profile.

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imide

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

I have reinstalled Arch and I noticed it only happens when I install NVIDIA drivers.

seth

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

What's pretty much meaningless.

Could be because nvidia moves you from wayland to X11.
Could be because nouveau failed to read the EDID so there's no color correction applied.
Could be because you've some stored nvidia-settings gamma correction.
Could be because god knows what.

Elaborate on the environment (DE/WM, display server, ideally comparative xorg logs - iff this is X11) and name the monitor vendor/model if you want this to go anywhere.
Right now you're at "it does not works! why?", https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

Reply from Imide accidentally sent as a report:

I don't know the model as it's my sister's old Insignia tv

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seth

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Re: Yellow tint on second monitor only for Arch Linux, not for Windows

xorg log and nvidia-settings should™ provide some information about it and in the output settings of the latter you might also change between 6bpc and 8pbc
But more importantly since this is apparently a Tv: those frequently come w/ color presets (film, normal, sport, …) and tend to discriminate by source (ie. if the Tv thinks the input is a DVD/Bluray player, it might switch to the movie mode (which is typically darker and not overly blue), tl;dr: check the TV settings.

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