Solved Screen has inverted colors

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Sometimes it goes away and everything is fine most of the time when I power down and reboot this happens.....



oem@NORD:~$ inxi -fxz
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6600T bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1007 high: 1629 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 1629 bogomips: 21599
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln
pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc
tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
oem@NORD:~$
 

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G'day Tobey - try the command with capital F

inxi -Fxz

With the screenshot, is it the desktop background that is inverted?

Recent Timeshift snapshots available?

Wiz
 
The desktop screen stays inverted sometimes it clears up . I think its UEFI related.
 
oem@NORD:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ProDesk 600 G2 DM v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8169 v: KBC Version 05.39 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: HP v: N22 Ver. 02.60 date: 12/15/2022
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard
charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6600T bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 900 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900
4: 900 bogomips: 21599
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: ASUSTek Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:3
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
Device-2: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-7:4
Report: ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
lmp-v: 4.2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 19.92 GiB (2.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
temp: 27.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 19.92 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 21.0 C pch: 31.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 231 Uptime: 2h 15m Memory: 31.23 GiB used: 1.93 GiB (6.2%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 Packages: 2160 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13
 
Thanks - I have to go out for a bit - if I think of anything useful I'll come back with it.
 
Screenshot from 2023-03-15 18-58-07.png
 
Same computer same everything in Windows it works fine no inverted colors anything.
Only when I run Linux it does this.
Maybe Linux isn't meant for every computer after all....
 
Any kernel update on your Linux recently?

Updates of anything graphical ?
 
Condobloke said:
Any kernel update on your Linux recently?

Updates of anything graphical ?
Click to expand...
Fresh install on a fresh M.2 I reset the computer to factory settings then installed Linux Mint . I let Linux update through terminal
 
I can update the bios if you think that would help.
 
NORD wrote:
Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
Click to expand...
It would be useful to know if any firmware is missing for the i915 driver.

You can run in a terminal:
Code: 
dmesg | grep -i firmware
and see what it outputs. Might need root permissions. If firmware is missing, then install it.

You can control the inversion of colour on the monitor in X with the xcalib program. If you run:
Code: 
xcalib -i -a
it will invert the colours IF your video card has the relevant capacity. To revert to the colours you came from, one just runs the same command. It works like a toggle. You'll probably need to install the package.

xcalib in this case I guess would just be a corrective, not a real solution to a firmware/driver/monitor set that should not behave in this way flicking into reverse colour, but if there's no other solution, it may be all you have. Many years ago, in a similar situation, this was the only palliative in a case of mine.

If none of the above is useful, then you can grab the kernel's i915 firmware from: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915/, and install all of it in your filesystem in the directory: /lib/firmware/i915. That will hopefully discount firmware as the issue.
 
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I will try these on my Linux computer thanks!
 
xcalib -i -a made it a little better but still inverted
 
nord@hplinux:~$ dmesg | grep -i firmware
[ 0.301021] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 1.804094] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin (v1.27)
[ 6.585866] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 29.4063824552.0 7265D-29.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[ 6.698565] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
[ 6.715697] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.
nord@hplinux:~$ xcalib -i -a
 
I'm dropping a link for my self right here for the driver download since its hard to see on my other computer.

Official HP® Desktop Drivers and Software Download

Download the latest drivers, software, firmware, and diagnostics for your HP desktops from the official HP Support website.
support.hp.com support.hp.com
 
Linux Mint recovery mode is working with no inverted screen flaws.
 
So the inverted colors had to do with the monitor after all its an old Samsung TV who knew? lol! Solved!!!!
 
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