Overly bright video with Intel 82865G

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 14:30:22 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have an Intel 82865G connected to a display via VGA and every time i
> play video (VLC, mythfrontend playback) the video is overly (unusably)
> bright. The rest of the desktop (bootop, GDM, fluxbox, mythtfrontend)
> are all ok. This is with the 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel package.
> 
> I would like to get video to play at or about the same
> brightness/contrast as the rest of the computer.

Hi,

you can use xvattr to change settings like brightness and contrast of
the XV output. You can also set these in mythfrontend.

Regards,
Tino