[Bug 74167] [i915] Colors seem inverted on Dell 3737 Laptop IntelHD4400

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74167

--- Comment #24 from Charles <charles_smee at yahoo.com> ---
Thanks very much for the suggestion.  I tried 8 other distros, and only one
worked, but that one provided a correctly-colored graphical screen, just as it
should have.  That distro was Clonezilla 2.2.0.16 (December 2013). I used a
Live-CD that contained an ISO image that I burned myself, and I employed it
successfully on an old, former Vista machine.

The ones that didn't work included a 64-bit version of Linux Mint 13 Mate which
I created today; OSDisc.com versions of Linux Mint 13 Mate (32-bit which is
running properly on the old Vista machine), and Parted Magic 2012_10_10; and
versions of Wary Puppy 5.6; Puppy Linux 4.3.1; Precise Puppy 5.7.1; and Ubuntu
12.04, for all of which I downloaded ISO's and burned them to disks -- and all
of these Live-CDs work properly on other, old machines.  

The problem with using these on the Dell Inspiron 17 3737 is that the UEFI disk
boot system does not recognize that these disks are in the computer's DVD-RW
drive.  It is only the Linux Mint 16 (64-bit Mate) and the Clonezilla disk
where the UEFI boot manager screen says that there's a DVD path to which the
computer can boot.  For the others, its as if the disk wasn't in the drive.
However, booting the Dell with the mal-colored version of Lunix Mint 16 with
each of these disks in the drive shows that Caja, Mint's file manager,
recognizes each of these disks properly, and correctly identifies them by name
or distribution number.

And, the interesting question is why does the Clonezilla disk give correct
screen colors, while the Linux Mint 16 Mate (64-bit) gives inverted colors and
grainy pixellation?

Thanks

Charles

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