Wrong colors after sucessfully installed nvidia 96 driver version

[Mikael Thurberg]

Hi!

I have installed the 96 version to Nvidia drivers trough the Administration -> Hardware drivers -> Propieritary drivers -> enable them.

The installation there went well. Did a reboot of my computer. Worked. Loged into desktop. Worked. BUT with WRONG colors!

It looks like some sort of, I dont know.. 256 colors only?

It says 16 million in Nvidias Xserver configuration Utility, but it doesnt look like it! Somthing like 256 colors more like it.. :(

Ive changed to 3d-effects and that worked to enable. But that gives me still the "256 colors bug"..

I feel like colorblind at the moment only seeing some colors..

The speed seems to have increased from before Ive activated the propiertary drivers. But then I had full colors..

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OS: Ubuntu 10.10 with manually added components to ubuntustudio

(through this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubuntu%20Studio%20Upgrade%20from%20Ubuntu )

System: Dell dimension 4400, Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti500
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mikael@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-96
nvidia-96:
  Installerad: 96.43.19-0ubuntu1 (# installerad means installed in english)
  Kandidat: 96.43.19-0ubuntu1 (# kandidat means candidate in english)
  Versionstabell:
 *** 96.43.19-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     96.43.18-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted i386 Packages

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Please write if I should specify additional info and Ill check it as soon as I can.

Attached an screenshot how it looks from the desktop.

Thanks!
Have a nice day!

/GBU :)

[Mikael Thurberg (mthurberg)]

Also I had this problem with ubuntustudio 10.04 when I finally get the Nvidia drivers to "work".

They worked, but with only this kind of colors.

The same in Ubuntu 10.04 for me.

I would be happy to get rid of this "colorblindness" error :)

/Micke

[Mikael Thurberg (mthurberg)]

Update: Looked at the pictured attached of the desktop from another computer, there the colors are normal.

Tried to change from DVI cable to the VGA cable on the same graphics card. THEN the colors worked as normal.

You could think there is something wrong with my DVI cable then but it isnt because it workes fine in Windows.

I dont know where the problem is, it seems like it captures the picture from the desktop correctly, but then there is something wrong after that and between displaying the picture correctly on the screen?

Maybee it is a specific hardware problem?

I gave up, Ive change graphics card now.

Maybee it will work if you change something Ive read about somewhere to display value "DFP" somewhere in the x server config? I dont know..

The 3D support works though although i am having image distortions..

Thanks anyway. Have a nice day.

/Micke

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

nvidia-96 is removed since raring, closing it's bugs

affects ubuntu/nvidia-96
status wontfix

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

affects ubuntu/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96
status wontfix

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

 affects ubuntu/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96
 status wontfix