Re: 1.5D borders on FC4

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:50:24 CST, Doug Maxey wrote:
> 
> Howdy!
> 
> Just installed the latest and greatest FC4 (circa 11-14).
> 
> Most of the graphics and tools are working just fine under Gnome, thank you.
> 
> But...
> 
> In all of my exmh buttons or selections, it appears they have gone 1.5 
> dimensional.  What I mean is that there is normally a lighter border on 
> the north and west sides of the image to give a nice 3D look to the button 
> or selection.   This has disappeared, with only the east and south 
> edges getting the darker border they always have.
> 
> And BTW, all the backgrounds appear lighter.  Is there a specific
> attribute to try in app-defaults to darken the overall background,
> and maybe have the lighter borders appear?
> 
> 
> Or is this a more generic tk issue?

Answering my own post :)

It appears the default Gamma settings have changed in xorg for the Radeon
9000.  The default setting is apparently 2.5, which was way too bright.
Setting the Gamma in xorg.conf down to 1.5 fixed the issue.

diff -w -p -u -r1.1.1.1 xorg.conf
--- xorg.conf   17 Nov 2005 09:21:10 -0000      1.1.1.1
+++ xorg.conf   10 Dec 2005 18:47:15 -0000
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Section "Monitor"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 80.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
        Option      "dpms"
+       Gamma       1.5
 EndSection

 Section "Device"


++doug