Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't display
reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have tried cleaning
the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and the price of parts is
pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep
this one around as a backup since it still works fine other than the video
card. I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well
and essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work, and
if so how would I do it?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have
> tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and
> the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new
> laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a backup
> since it still works fine other than the video card.
You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have
>> tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and
>> the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new
>> laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a backup
>> since it still works fine other than the video card.
>
> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>
>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
>
>> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
>
>
yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Michael Linford wrote:
> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't display
> reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have tried cleaning
> the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and the price of parts is
> pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep
> this one around as a backup since it still works fine other than the video
> card. I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well
> and essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work, and
> if so how would I do it?
>
>
For a hardware failure, that is pretty strange. AFAIK, the connection to the
LCD panel, is digital via low voltage differential signalling. That doesn't use
the DAC in the GPU. The VGA monitor connection on the back, has RGB as
analog signals. A broken pin, disconnected wire, or a failure in the red
channel could account for one color going missing. Having equivalent failures
seems unlikely from a hardware perspective. And having a failure deep in the
logic somewhere, without breaking the chip, is pretty unlikely.
Are you sure this isn't a problem with a gamma setting or something ?
(Like a change that has only been applied to the red channel.)
Do you get the same response, if you boot with a read-only Linux
distro like Knoppix (knopper.net) ? There may be some version of Ubuntu that allows
the same thing. The CD doesn't install anything, and allows you to boot
up a Linux desktop. Try that, and see if the color space is normal there.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Lez Pawl wrote:
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
> > Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
> >> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have
> >> tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and
> >> the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new
> >> laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a backup
> >> since it still works fine other than the video card.
> > You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
There are no gray pixels. The display has red, green, and blue pixels. If the red does not work and you turn off the green and blue you will have nothing.
Michael Linford wrote:
>
> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't display
> reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I have tried cleaning
> the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty and the price of parts is
> pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep
> this one around as a backup since it still works fine other than the video
> card. I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well
> and essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work, and
> if so how would I do it?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Lez Pawl <Lez@Pawlbtinternet.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
>>> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
>>> buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
>>> backup since it still works fine other than the video card.
>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
>>> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Lez Pawl <Lez@Pawlbtinternet.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>
>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>>>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>>>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
>>>> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
>>>> buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
>>>> backup since it still works fine other than the video card.
>
>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>
>>>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>>>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
>
>>>> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
>
>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
>
> Try it, fuckwit.
>
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Lez Pawl <Lez@Pawlbtinternet.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Lez Pawl <Lez@Pawlbtinternet.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>>>>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>>>>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
>>>>> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
>>>>> buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
>>>>> backup since it still works fine other than the video card.
>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>>>>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>>>>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
>>>>> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
>> Try it, fuckwit.
> ohhh you learned a new word from the xp group....
Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Michael Linford" <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote in
news:nJGdnWfRRfU33_TYnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
> buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
> backup since it still works fine other than the video card. I think
> I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well and
> essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work,
> and if so how would I do it?
Without red there is just no way to achieve gray. Grayscale would be
achieved on an RGB system by setting the red, green and blue to equal
values in the pixels, so you could, for example achieve 256 levels of
gray by using RGB vlaues 0,0,0 though 255,255,255 with 24-bit color. If
the red is missing then you can't do that.
Are you 100% certain this isn't a software problem? Do the colors appear
wrong when the machine is booting (before the OS loads)? Have you tried
to boot a live linux CD or to go into the BIOS setup and see if the
colors appear wrong?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
meow2222@care2.com wrote in
news:1164550622.695958.149520@j44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
> Lez Pawl wrote:
>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
>> > Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> >> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It
>> >> doesn't display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external
>> >> monitor. I have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It
>> >> is out of warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so
>> >> I've decided to buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this
>> >> one around as a backup since it still works fine other than the
>> >> video card.
>
>> > You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>> > special.
>
>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>> Speeeeeddddd.
>
> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a
backup?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
If no red signal is getting to the LCD then you'll have "cyan scale" and not
grey scale. All reds will be missing.
Depending on what is broken, you MIGHT be able to accomplish what you want
by shorting the red wire to the blue or green wire.
Does the laptop have a VGA port? What happens when you connect a monitor?
> "Michael Linford" <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote in
> news:nJGdnWfRRfU33_TYnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
>> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
>> buy a new laptop.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>> Lez Pawl wrote:
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>>>>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>>>>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of warranty
>>>>> and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new
>>>>> laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a backup since
>>>>> it still works fine other than the video card.
>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
> Right about what?
Not doing anything special, stupid.
> Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a backup?
Continuing to have the old laptop around as a backup,
and just put up with the loss of red with that.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Mitch Crane wrote:
> "Michael Linford" <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote in
> news:nJGdnWfRRfU33_TYnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
> > I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
> > display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
> > have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
> > warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
> > buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
> > backup since it still works fine other than the video card. I think
> > I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well and
> > essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work,
> > and if so how would I do it?
> Without red there is just no way to achieve gray. Grayscale would be
> achieved on an RGB system by setting the red, green and blue to equal
> values in the pixels, so you could, for example achieve 256 levels of
> gray by using RGB vlaues 0,0,0 though 255,255,255 with 24-bit color. If
> the red is missing then you can't do that.
but the eye/brain compensates, and a crt with no red channel can look
ok if youre working at it, ie paying it most of your attention. Better
to leave it in colour than go to B&W, then you'll still have greens and
blues as well as sort-of-grey. But your red orange and yellows are all
history.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in
news:4t2c4gF125e2jU1@mid.individual.net:
> Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>> Lez Pawl wrote:
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>
>>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It
>>>>>> doesn't display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external
>>>>>> monitor. I have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It
>>>>>> is out of warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so
>>>>>> I've decided to buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this
>>>>>> one around as a backup since it still works fine other than the
>>>>>> video card.
>
>>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>>>>> special.
>
>>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>>>> Speeeeeddddd.
>
>>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>
>> Right about what?
>
> Not doing anything special, stupid.
>
>> Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a backup?
>
> Continuing to have the old laptop around as a backup,
> and just put up with the loss of red with that.
Yeah, not doing anyrhing to the old laptop and buying a new one will
work. Who would hav ever guessed that?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
meow2222@care2.com wrote in
news:1164721169.595577.41670@80g2000cwy.googlegrou ps.com:
> Mitch Crane wrote:
>> meow2222@care2.com wrote in
>> news:1164550622.695958.149520@j44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
>> > Lez Pawl wrote:
>> >> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
>> >> > Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> >> >> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It
>> >> >> doesn't display reds,
>
>> >> > You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>> >> > special.
>
>> >> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>> >> Speeeeeddddd.
>
>> > he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>
>> Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around
>> as a backup?
>
> Well he only made one claim that i quoted, so I'll let you figure it
> out.
Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than buying a new
laptop to replace the old one will work. A great piece of advice
indeed. Such insight is rare.
The bit about grayscale certainly won't work if red doesn't work.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
>>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>>> Lez Pawl wrote:
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>>>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem.
>>>>>>> It doesn't display reds, either on the LCD screen or an
>>>>>>> external monitor. I have tried cleaning the contacts, still
>>>>>>> no luck. It is out of warranty and the price of parts is
>>>>>>> pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new laptop. But
>>>>>>> I would like to keep this one around as a backup
>>>>>>> since it still works fine other than the video card.
>>>>>>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>>>>>>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
>>>>>>> Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
>>>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>>>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
>>>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>>> Right about what?
>> Not doing anything special, stupid.
>>> Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a backup?
>> Continuing to have the old laptop around as a backup,
>> and just put up with the loss of red with that.
> Yeah, not doing anyrhing to the old laptop and buying a new one will work.
HE said he wanted to keep the old laptop in reserve and
was asking about running the screen in grayscale, fuckwit.
Running it in grayscale isnt possible, putting up with the loss of red is surprisingly viable.
> Who would hav ever guessed that?
Thanks for that completely superfluous proof of what a terminal fuckwit you have always been.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>> Mitch Crane wrote
>>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>>> Lez Pawl wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>>>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem.
>>>>>>> It doesn't display reds,
>>>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything special.
>>>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod Speeeeeddddd.
>>>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>>> Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a backup?
>> Well he only made one claim that i quoted, so I'll let you figure it out.
> Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than
> buying a new laptop to replace the old one will work.
Thats because that fool Pawl molested the quoting, fuckwit.
> A great piece of advice indeed. Such insight is rare.
So stupid that it didnt even bother to check the original.
> The bit about grayscale certainly won't work if red doesn't work.
But ignoring the lack of red is surprisingly viable, fuckwit.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
meow2222@care2.com wrote:
> Mitch Crane wrote:
>> "Michael Linford" <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote in
>> news:nJGdnWfRRfU33_TYnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It doesn't
>>> display reds, either on the LCD screen or an external monitor. I
>>> have tried cleaning the contacts, still no luck. It is out of
>>> warranty and the price of parts is pretty high, so I've decided to
>>> buy a new laptop. But I would like to keep this one around as a
>>> backup since it still works fine other than the video card. I think
>>> I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues as well and
>>> essentially turn it into a grayscale display. Would this even work,
>>> and if so how would I do it?
>
>> Without red there is just no way to achieve gray. Grayscale would be
>> achieved on an RGB system by setting the red, green and blue to equal
>> values in the pixels, so you could, for example achieve 256 levels of
>> gray by using RGB vlaues 0,0,0 though 255,255,255 with 24-bit color.
>> If the red is missing then you can't do that.
> but the eye/brain compensates, and a crt with no red channel can
> look ok if youre working at it, ie paying it most of your attention.
And some Win color schemes dont use red much at all. So all you really
notice is that the red X in the top right hand corner isnt red anymore etc.
Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it any time soon.
> Better to leave it in colour than go to B&W, then you'll still have greens and
> blues as well as sort-of-grey. But your red orange and yellows are all history.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Mitch Crane wrote:
> meow2222@care2.com wrote in
> news:1164721169.595577.41670@80g2000cwy.googlegrou ps.com:
> > Mitch Crane wrote:
> >> meow2222@care2.com wrote in
> >> news:1164550622.695958.149520@j44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
> >> > Lez Pawl wrote:
> >> >> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
> >> >> > Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> >> >> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It
> >> >> >> doesn't display reds,
> >> >> > You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
> >> >> > special.
> >> >> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
> >> >> Speeeeeddddd.
> >> > he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
> >> Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around
> >> as a backup?
> > Well he only made one claim that i quoted, so I'll let you figure it
> > out.
> Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than buying a new
> laptop to replace the old one will work. A great piece of advice
> indeed. Such insight is rare.
Would you like to borrow my glasses?
> The bit about grayscale certainly won't work if red doesn't work.
I guess youre not up on the curious things the eye & brain do with
colour perception.
> >> Without red there is just no way to achieve gray. Grayscale would be
> >> achieved on an RGB system by setting the red, green and blue to equal
> >> values in the pixels, so you could, for example achieve 256 levels of
> >> gray by using RGB vlaues 0,0,0 though 255,255,255 with 24-bit color.
> >> If the red is missing then you can't do that.
> > but the eye/brain compensates, and a crt with no red channel can
> > look ok if youre working at it, ie paying it most of your attention.
> And some Win color schemes dont use red much at all. So all you really
> notice is that the red X in the top right hand corner isnt red anymore etc.
>
> Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it any time soon.
lol Its funny what people get bent out of shape over. Which colour
scheme would you suggest?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in
news:4t3d6fF11j1hdU1@mid.individual.net:
> Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
>>>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>>>> Lez Pawl wrote:
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>
>>>>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem.
>>>>>>>> It doesn't display reds, either on the LCD screen or an
>>>>>>>> external monitor. I have tried cleaning the contacts, still
>>>>>>>> no luck. It is out of warranty and the price of parts is
>>>>>>>> pretty high, so I've decided to buy a new laptop. But
>>>>>>>> I would like to keep this one around as a backup
>>>>>>>> since it still works fine other than the video card.
>
>>>>>>>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and
>>>>>>>> blues as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale
>>>>>>>> display. Would this even work, and if so how would I do it?
>
>>>>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>>>>>>> special.
>
>>>>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>>>>>> Speeeeeddddd.
>
>>>>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>
>>>> Right about what?
>
>>> Not doing anything special, stupid.
>
>>>> Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around as a backup?
>
>>> Continuing to have the old laptop around as a backup,
>>> and just put up with the loss of red with that.
>
>> Yeah, not doing anyrhing to the old laptop and buying a new one
>> will work.
>
> HE said he wanted to keep the old laptop in reserve and
> was asking about running the screen in grayscale, fuckwit.
Well, that won't work, fuckwit, because without red you can't do
grayscale, fuckwit.
> Running it in grayscale isnt possible, putting up with the loss of
> red is surprisingly viable.
So continuing to put up with the loss of red will work surprisingly
well without doing anything? Who would have guessed?
>> Who would hav ever guessed that?
>
> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof of what a terminal
> fuckwit you have always been.
Thanks for your *not at all* superflous confirmation that the OP can
continue to do nothing and put up with the loss of red. You never could
bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in
news:4t3dboF12drloU1@mid.individual.net:
> Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote
>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>> Mitch Crane wrote
>>>> meow2222@care2.com wrote
>>>>> Lez Pawl wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote
>
>>>>>>>> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem.
>>>>>>>> It doesn't display reds,
>
>>>>>>> You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>>>>>>> special.
>
>>>>>> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>>>>>> Speeeeeddddd.
>
>>>>> he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>
>>>> Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one
>>>> around as a backup?
>
>>> Well he only made one claim that i quoted, so I'll let you figure
>>> it out.
>
>> Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than
>> buying a new laptop to replace the old one will work.
>
> Thats because that fool Pawl molested the quoting, fuckwit.
>
>> A great piece of advice indeed. Such insight is rare.
>
> So stupid that it didnt even bother to check the original.
Yeah I read the original. Either you were saying buying a new laptop
would work, doing nothing at all and continuing to have no red would
work (both stupid confirmations of the obvious) or that he could do
greyscale, which won't work.
>> The bit about grayscale certainly won't work if red doesn't work.
>
> But ignoring the lack of red is surprisingly viable, fuckwit.
No kidding? Brilliant! I'm sure the OP reallay appreciates you telling
him that he can just ignore the loss of red. Although I suspect that
the whole reason for the question is that the OP doesn't like it and
wanted to know if he could do grayscale.
>> I think I could tolerate it if I disabled the greens and blues
>> as well and essentially turn it into a grayscale display.
I.e. it *could be* tolerable if it were grayscale, but apparently isn't
tolerable as it is now. Keep trying to bullshit your way out of this
wet paper bag.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
meow2222@care2.com wrote in news:1164739831.818478.136660@
14g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
> Mitch Crane wrote:
>> meow2222@care2.com wrote in
>> news:1164721169.595577.41670@80g2000cwy.googlegrou ps.com:
>> > Mitch Crane wrote:
>> >> meow2222@care2.com wrote in
>> >> news:1164550622.695958.149520@j44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
>> >> > Lez Pawl wrote:
>> >> >> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> >> news:4st6mqFvmf3jU1@mid.individual.net...
>> >> >> > Michael Linford <mlinford229d@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> >> >> >> I have a two year old laptop with a video card problem. It
>> >> >> >> doesn't display reds,
>
>> >> >> > You'll find it works surprisingly well without doing anything
>> >> >> > special.
>
>> >> >> yet another great piece of advice.......frooooommmm Rod
>> >> >> Speeeeeddddd.
>
>> >> > he is occasionally right, and he is on this one.
>
>> >> Right about what? Buying a new laptop or keeping the old one around
>> >> as a backup?
>
>> > Well he only made one claim that i quoted, so I'll let you figure it
>> > out.
>
>> Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than buying a new
>> laptop to replace the old one will work. A great piece of advice
>> indeed. Such insight is rare.
>
> Would you like to borrow my glasses?
No thanks, they apparenly aren't working very well.
>> The bit about grayscale certainly won't work if red doesn't work.
>
> I guess youre not up on the curious things the eye & brain do with
> colour perception.
No I'm up on the fact that, psychovisual phenomena aside, you can't do
greyscale without red. I'm also up on the fact that since the OP is
already having to put up with the loss of red and obviously isn't happy
with it, we can assume that the loss of red is quite noticeable and
annoying. Having used a monitor on the past where the red was very weak I
have some understanding of what that's like.
Can it be used without red? Sure, as the OP already knows and is
apparently unhappily doing now. What was asked was can grayscale be done.
The answer is, no, it won't work surprisingly well, he'll just have to
put up with no red on the backup machine.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
meow2222@care2.com wrote in
news:1164739959.379600.325250@j72g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> meow2222@care2.com wrote:
>> > Mitch Crane wrote:
>
>> >> Without red there is just no way to achieve gray. Grayscale
>> >> would be achieved on an RGB system by setting the red, green and
>> >> blue to equal values in the pixels, so you could, for example
>> >> achieve 256 levels of gray by using RGB vlaues 0,0,0 though
>> >> 255,255,255 with 24-bit color. If the red is missing then you
>> >> can't do that.
>
>> > but the eye/brain compensates, and a crt with no red channel can
>> > look ok if youre working at it, ie paying it most of your
>> > attention.
>
>> And some Win color schemes dont use red much at all. So all you
>> really notice is that the red X in the top right hand corner isnt
>> red anymore etc.
>>
>> Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it any time soon.
>
> lol Its funny what people get bent out of shape over. Which colour
> scheme would you suggest?
Yeah, they start calling people fuckwit and other names over nothing.
Thank goodness Ron never does that, right? Or did you mean the OP
getting bent out of shape over the loss of red (as if that's even
needed)?
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in news:4t3dboF12drloU1
@mid.individual.net:
>> Yeah I see it, but it doesn't say anything other than
>> buying a new laptop to replace the old one will work.
>
> Thats because that fool Pawl molested the quoting, fuckwit.
Oh, and by the way, it the fool who messed up the quoting wasn't Lez
Pawl, who quoted your entire post. The fool in question was apparently meow2222@care2.com. I guess you owe Lez Pawl an appology and meow2222
@care2.com a name calling (hint: try "fuckwit").
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Some terminal fuckwit that cant even manage its own
lines, or anything else at all either, claiming to be
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> desperately
attempted to bullshit its way out of its predicament
and fooled absolutely no one at all, as always.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Some terminal fuckwit that cant even manage its own
lines, or anything else at all either, claiming to be
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> desperately
attempted to bullshit its way out of its predicament
and fooled absolutely no one at all, as always.
Re: Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale?
Some terminal fuckwit that cant even manage its own
lines, or anything else at all either, claiming to be
Mitch Crane <a-one@a-two.a-three> desperately
attempted to bullshit its way out of its predicament
and fooled absolutely no one at all, as always.
Setting color on monitor to display only grayscale? 
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