Display on MacBook is weird

[Zwhaler]

I just woke my new BlackBook from sleep, and something is off about the display. I have checked my contrast and brightness and that is not the issue. I cannot seem to calibrate my screen it says that "The factory profile for the display cannot be found" and I can't calibrate it. There are calibration profiles on this computer, and when I change them the screen looks exactly the same, so the profiles do not appear to change anything on how the screen looks. Help!

As an example, when I activate dashboard, instead of the background going black/grey, it goes blue. The white colors have been changed to dominately blue-ish rather than white-ish.

...and I've tried repairing permissions

 

[Benjamindaines]

Did you try restarting?

 

[Zwhaler]

It did the trick! Thanks, I forgot to do that

 

[Zwhaler]

Bad news - everytime I use fast user switching to go from a different account to mine, the same problem persists. I do not want to have to restart the computer 10 times a day. Help please? I tried switching to a different user and now that account has the same issue too! What is wrong

To be exact, if I log into my account (there are 2 accounts in all), log into the other account, and log back into mine, the screen goes all weird and I cannot fix it without a restart.

 

[plinden]

This is something that's happened with me with fast user switching.

I had an applescript program that avoids having to restart but I don't do fast user switching any more since my wife got her own Mac, so it'll take me some time to track it down. But don't do anything drastic.

Edit: Try typing this in Terminal - it should be all on one line:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DMProxy

 

[Zwhaler]

Now I'm just wondering if this is something that occurs in all of the news MacBooks, or just some of them. I hope it can be fixed.

Edit: just tried the command - it did the trick! I'll check if the problem persists.

 

[plinden]

This used to happen on my iMac (first gen Intel) so, no, it's not MacBook related.

Edit: Glad it worked for you. The problem will persist for as long as you use fast user switching. So I suggest you create a script using that command and save it on your desktop so you can double click it when the display screws up again.

 

[Zwhaler]

Ok, I guess I will give Apple a call and see what they have to say about it. Thanks for the command, that makes it a lot easier.

 

[WildCowboy]

It's a somewhat-common problem that's been around for quite a while now. I've experienced it a couple of times on my PowerBook.

 

[Zwhaler]

Ok, I called Apple and they sent me a link on a walkthrough on how to fix it. I'm gonna try it out, here is the walkthourgh o how to fix it for any of you who are experiencing this:

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/02/fuscolor/index.php