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  Re: Redhat linux : Preview window red and blue channels inversed?  
From: Bruno Cabasson
Date: 3 Feb 2011 14:35:01
Message: <web.4d4b0286a2d8082893ff16400@news.povray.org>
Jim Holsenback <jho### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
> On 02/03/2011 03:01 PM, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> >> Hi all.
> >>
> >> My first attempt to generate POV-Ray on a Linux target (32-bit
> >> Redhat entreprise 5, 2.6.18 kernel) was successful (yesssss).
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the preview window shows inversed red&  blue channels
> >> whereas saved images are OK. I mean:
> >>
> >> background {<rgb<1,0,0>}  shows blue but saved file shows red
> >> background {<rgb<0,0,1>}  shows red but saved file shows blue
> >>
> >
> >   Works fine here on Fedora 14, but I remember a similar issue years ago
> > with MegaPOV, which I solved using "-visual DirectColor" on the
> > commandline.
> >
>
> hmmm ... don't think it's that
>
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Unix_Section_6#Special_Command-Line_Options
>
> indeed if X11 windows was working properly you'd have those command-line
> options available but:
>
> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Unix_Section_7#Known_Bugs
>
> just for a sanity check -visual won't pass parse phase in unx builds
>
> Ciao

Thanks for the tip. I'll check that.

Regards


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