Onboard VIA video brightness issues

have u tryed adjusting your gamma in control center,peripherals then display.

yep, I went in there and tried to adjust the gamma. Unfortunatly, it didn't do a thing. Nothing happened even after I changed it and rebooted. Nothing happened when I messed with the color either. I also tried changing the monitor from a generic to the compaq that it is.

Any other suggestions?

Are you using a desktop or laptop. try turnig your brightness all the way up if using a monitor. if using a laptop check your bios make sure your external vid port is off so mepis can detect correctly. Can't think anymore simple fix's right now. Let us know if still have problems.

yep, brightness is turned up all the way, as is the contrast setting. I know it's not a hardware issue because I used this same setup for windows xp and kubuntu linux and didn't have any problems with it.

is there any command line or code editing way to manually set the gamma higher? the gui frontend of the gamma settings seems not to be working.

here is the motherboard I'm running:

http://www.baber.com/baber/411/biostar_m6vlr.htm

MOTHERBOARD MODEL: Biostar M6VLR
CPU SUPPORT:
Socket 370
Intel Pentium III & Celeron Coppermine and Tualatin up to 1.4 GHz and VIA C3 up to 933 Mhz
CHIPSET:
VIA VT8601A(PLE133T) / VT82C686B
FSB:
66/100/133 FSB
SYSTEM MEMORY:
2 x 168-pin SDRAM DIMM sockets support up to 1GB
PC-133 SDRAM
EXPANSIONS SLOTS:
3 x PCI
1 x ISA
1 x AMR
INTEGRATED VIDEO:
Trident Blade 3D Core
ON-BOARD PERIPHERALS:
1 x 25 pin Parallel, 1 x 9 pin Serial
1 x PS/2 Mouse, 1x PS/2 Keyboard
2 x Rear USB
1 x Game Port, 1 x Speaker-out, 1 x Line-in, 1 x Mic.-in
1 x Floppy Disk connector
4 x IDE Hard Disk Devices connectors
Ultra DMA33/66/100
1 RJ45 Ethernet port

ON BOARD LAN:
Reatek RTL8100
ON BOARD AUDIO:
AC'97 2.1 CODEC Onboard
DIMENSIONS:
Micro ATX Form Factor

Could u post a copy of your fstab so we can see how it is configured.perhaps the answer is there.