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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:50:53 +0900
From:      Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
To:        Michael Vondung <michael@vcommunities.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction
Message-ID:  <3F69D45D.3020704@snu.ac.kr>
In-Reply-To: <000101c37dd8$eb75ce00$0200a8c0@tabby>
References:  <000101c37dd8$eb75ce00$0200a8c0@tabby>

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Michael Vondung wrote:
> Hello, all,
> 
> I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran
> into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma
> correction? "man XFree86" suggests the command line option "-gamma value",
> where "value" is a number between 0.1 and 10.0, 1.0 being the default. I
> tried to start X with "startx -gamma 2.0", but right after displaying the
> nVidia logo, X drops back to the command line. The error message says,
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option '-gamma'. The XFree86 version
> is 4.3.0 (compiled from ports).

Use xgamma instead. It allows you to change gamma on a running X.
"man xgamma" will tell you more.

Rob.



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