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xserver-xorg-video-i810 package

  1. Bug #32963
  2. Comment #124

Comment 124 for bug 32963

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ropers (ropers) wrote : Re: totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST to wrong default value (Xv movies on i810/i945 have horrible colour/gamma)

PS: To add to the above workaround, using not just
  xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v 24
but also
  xvattr -a XV_CONTRAST -v 3000
makes the picture better, and more similar to a gamma 1.6 corrected picture. (The default values are 0 and 4096, respectively.)