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

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

--- Comment #46 from Charles <charles_smee at yahoo.com> ---
I was able to get normal graphics on my Dell Inspiron 17 3737 running Linux
Mint 16 dual-booted with Windows 8.1, using UEFI with secure boot disabled. 
For the first time, I get normal, non-inverted colors while using all the Linux
software packages I've tried, including applications, internet, and a
commercial DVD movie with the VLC player. I did the following:

1) Installed fglrx-pxpress using the Software Manager.  fglrx was already
installed.  This caused Xorg to fail to load, followed by a black screen. 
However, I rebooted into recovery mode.
2) While booting in recovery mode, saying yes to the question of accessing
archived data packages.
3) At a stage in the recovery process, a menu appears that is headed by
"resume".  This menu allows me to run "dpkg" to repair broken packages.  I do
so.
4) After this, the same recovery menu reappears, and I run "resume".

When the computer finishes booting, the graphics are normal.

The resolution of the screen was reset to 1600x900 with a refresh rate of 77Hz
(this is up from the 13??x??? value, with 60Hz refresh, that I set to make the
"inverted colors" graphics more useable).  Also, the monitor is no longer
identified as "Seiko-Epson" but is now "Unknown".

The fly in this marvelous ointment is that steps 2-4, above, must be followed
every time I boot up.  Also, trying to place the computer in either suspend or
hibernate causes Xorg to fail, with a black screen.  The only way to recover is
rebooting in recovery mode as above.  But, rebooting using steps 2-4, above, is
abosolutely repeatable -- time after time.

If anyone can make sense of what's happening here and, more importantly, how to
make permanent the beneficial changes wrought by installing "fglrx-pxpress" and
running "dpkg" while rebooting in recovery mode, I'd certainly be very pleased
to know.

But, what a pleasure it is to see images of strawberries that are red instead
of green!

Thanks in advance for a little more assistance from the knowledgeable,

Charles

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