Inverted Colors in Fedora

victorsk · 02-08-2014, 09:38 PM

Hello everyone,

I just installed latest Fedora version using kernel 3.11 and it's their MATE spin.

This problem I have has been happening with all distros I tried where kernel is > version 3.2

Code:

lspci | grep VGA

gives:

Code:

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

The desktop colors in Fedora are all purple-like and everything seems blurry. It's obviously wrong colors.

It may have something to do with graphics card but I am not sure how to configure it or install appropriate driver for it.

I tried to download linux-intel-graphics tool from here:

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

But when trying to install I get "unsupported distribution" message.

I did some searching and believe that "bumblebee" might help but I don't know exactly how to solve this problem.

Could somebody help me please?

Thanks,
Victor.

P.S. Just to add, I must use distribution with kernel > 3.2 because those kernels support wireless Atheros driver (which I also had problem with but it works with higher kernel versions). My Point Linux installation works great with video on kernel 3.2 but it does not support wireless. Only kernels > 3.2 seem to support my wireless but the problem in this case are distorted color graphics.

Ztcoracat · 02-21-2014, 11:54 PM

Hi:

When I checked on my graphics card on Fedora 19 I have a Radeon HD 7550/7570.

Code:

[ ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M]

If know what (card & #) your graphics card is I can help you find the driver for your graphics card.
That should help.

Try running these and see if they provide you with more information (card manufacturer and #) about your graphics card.

Code:

lshw -c video (or)
lspci -nn | grep VGA

If those commands don't give you more info. than tell me what computer (desktop or laptop) you have and I'll look up the specifications and find out that way.

***IF you have the motherboard book it will tell you what graphics card you have***

Ztcoracat · 02-22-2014, 12:02 AM

What chipset do you have?
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm

Quote:

"bumblebee"

Bumblebee is for Nvidia graphics cards--unless I am mistaken.
http://bumblebee-project.org/

angryfirelord · 02-24-2014, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by victorsk

I did some searching and believe that "bumblebee" might help but I don't know exactly how to solve this problem.

Can you confirm if you also have an nvidia graphics card? If you have an nvidia card in addition to an intel chip that's activated at the same time, then you're going to have to take extra steps to get it working or disable the intel or nvidia graphics in your BIOS.

victorsk · 02-25-2014, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

What chipset do you have?
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-010512.htm

Bumblebee is for Nvidia graphics cards--unless I am mistaken.
http://bumblebee-project.org/

Hi,

Thank you for replying and my aplogies for delay. I though I marked this thread as solved because that very same day I switched to Ubuntu 12.04.01. I have a Dell Inspiron 17R laptop and apparently only "certified" Linux distributions work on it. This is surprising to me because all Linux distributions work on my older Dell machines. So, this probably is a new hardware issue. It seems that only kernel <= 3.2 works with my video card. Here are the specs as per commands:

Code:

lshw -c video
  *-display UNCLAIMED     
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b0000000-b03fffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:4000(size=64)

Code:

lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09)

So, again, I tried latest Fedora, Mint, Calculate, Ubuntu 13 ... basically all distros with kernel > 3.2 had this Inverted color problem. My current Ubuntu 12.04 shows correct colors but I think graphics card is still not performing up to its potential because I have mouse pointer disappearing when clicking on links, for example, which is likely due to video driver card. But its still much better than my original problem I mentioned.

Thanks,
Victor.

Ztcoracat · 02-25-2014, 03:45 PM

You are Welcome.

I'm glad to hear that your computer is running ok now.

I wish I knew why Fedora and other distro's that you tried didn't work properly with your graphics card.
Sorry that I don't know more.

angryfirelord · 02-25-2014, 06:27 PM

It seems like it's a problem for some with the Haswell chips. Can you install Fedora and update it? The 3.13 kernel recently got pushed to fedora-updates.