[G4] Weird 15" LCD display problem

[Cameron Kaiser]

> My son has a 450 MHz Sawtooth G4 with the standard AGP video card (Rage 128
> Pro). Yesterday his monitor image suddenly inverted (looks like a b/w or
> color negative, depending on how he sets preferences for the monitor). This
> must be a software issue, because the image is normal if he logs out and
> remains normal if another user logs in (OS X 10.2.5). I did a quick search
> in the support section of Apple's website and couldn't find anything that
> addresses this. Playing with the brightness settings for the monitor works
> but doesn't revert the image to normal when he's the logged-in user.

Look in the Universal Access preferences pane. There's a "Switch to White
on Black" option that may have been inadvertently triggered -- you can
change it back to "Black on White".

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