Comment 37 for bug 447692

I have no idea how to get more information about this problem, which I consider really serious. Obviously it is restricted to a small number of hardware and/or software configurations, or I guess everybody would be shouting out loud about it. So to give users not affected by the problem at least an idea of what is happening I took a picture of the screen after keying Ctrl-Alt-F1. The result is attached and shows that obviously the display's palette (colour table) is out of order: The Gnome background is still displayed but with a wrong palette that shows the different shades of pink or puple as green.

I made a litte experiment: After pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 I (biindly) keyed in my user id and password and then started a "wc" command. After switching back to graphics (Ctrl-Alt-F7) I ran a "ps -ef". Sure the "wc" was there. So obviously the problem is all on the display side: Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches the keyboard to a fully functional tty login but the output is hidden by the gnome image.

Maybe this could help anybody diagnose the problem?