Universal Blue•5mo ago

Inverted Colors in Apps on Steam Deck

Hello! Since updating yesterday on Steam deck to the newest available version, I'm getting colors that seem to be BGR output instead of RGB. Did I accidentally toggle a setting somehow or is this a bug? rpm-ostree output:

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:045bb4fbaa5a4539473d62374e28a8f755290b25823b81cc8d711b086c85b4dc
                  Version: 40.20240703.0 (2024-07-03T07:43:35Z)
          LayeredPackages: dotnet-runtime-6.0 rtl-sdr SDL2_image SDL2_mixer SDL2_ttf
                           webkit2gtk4.0

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)
          LayeredPackages: dotnet-runtime-6.0 rtl-sdr SDL2_image SDL2_mixer SDL2_ttf
                           webkit2gtk4.0

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:045bb4fbaa5a4539473d62374e28a8f755290b25823b81cc8d711b086c85b4dc
                  Version: 40.20240703.0 (2024-07-03T07:43:35Z)
          LayeredPackages: dotnet-runtime-6.0 rtl-sdr SDL2_image SDL2_mixer SDL2_ttf
                           webkit2gtk4.0

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)
          LayeredPackages: dotnet-runtime-6.0 rtl-sdr SDL2_image SDL2_mixer SDL2_ttf
                           webkit2gtk4.0

Example Screenshot attached

Solution:

Thank you so much, updated to the new image and the colors are fine again.

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16 Replies

TyberBei•5mo ago

I've got this too on my ally running GNOME, only seems to be in one game thus far so I'm not sure how to debug it

DevilFish303•5mo ago

i am having this issue on Emulationstation as well! I wonder if its related

DevilFish303•5mo ago

is "Baba is you" an OpenGL game by any chance? I am on KDE btw, I don't think its tied to a DE configuration, im wondering if there is an issue with the graphics driver if it was updated at all

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:d1778111c834d06e9004a693d80821f0f1815640554068c19661d0128d42f4ab
                  Version: 40.20240705.0 (2024-07-05T05:46:40Z)
          LayeredPackages: code gparted podman-docker zsh

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:72409340a00bb68365b9863d719c0228c75b08c85073a570a47708625e6a6a6a
                  Version: 40.20240703.0 (2024-07-03T07:39:40Z)
          LayeredPackages: code gparted podman-docker zsh

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:d1778111c834d06e9004a693d80821f0f1815640554068c19661d0128d42f4ab
                  Version: 40.20240705.0 (2024-07-05T05:46:40Z)
          LayeredPackages: code gparted podman-docker zsh

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable
                   Digest: sha256:72409340a00bb68365b9863d719c0228c75b08c85073a570a47708625e6a6a6a
                  Version: 40.20240703.0 (2024-07-03T07:39:40Z)
          LayeredPackages: code gparted podman-docker zsh

DevilFish303•5mo ago

i tried it on my HTPC and colors look normal

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
                   Digest: sha256:dcf0c28f284a613759ea0b1da0c10ba8744dc13f2de90fa5de5d6be49f0a01f5
                  Version: 40.20240630.0 (2024-06-30T20:42:59Z)

I'm going to try to update to see if it works

DevilFish303•5mo ago

yes updating to the latest bazzite reproduces this issue, furthermore, the colors on the "verifying steam installation" splash screen on boot with gamemode colors also have blue/red swapped everything else is normal

SkaiOP•5mo ago

The problem was happening in Emulation Station for me as well. I rolled back to the 6.30 version and it's functioning right. So definitely something in the update

DevilFish303•5mo ago

i did notice there were some patches for display between 6/30 and 7/3, i wonder if any of those can be the culprit great! i guess now we just need to wait for the devs to sort this out then

Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

odd, I'll see if I can reproduce this

Mcromae•5mo ago

I have noticed it here too, on the steam deck icon splash moving back to gamescope and in Nested Desktops Wallpaper and desktop icons

Brandon Giesing•5mo ago

Same here but doesn't seem to be affecting any games I tried unlike for others, for me it's ONLY the boot update screen and the desktop icons/wallpaper (but notably only when in Nested Desktop, it's fine on normal Desktop Mode and doesn't affect anything else like the Taskbar in both)

TeamLinux01•5mo ago

Oh, I just ran into this issue on Soul Nomad & the World Eaters on both Bazzite installs on my Decks. I thought it was something I did with that game, as it happened right after I orginally changed from Borderless Fullscreen to Fullscreen. Doing a fresh install of the game, deleting proton, shader cash and even disabling Steam Cloud saves would not help the color problem for the game. I just installed and ran the game on my Aurora-DX/steam flatpak on my laptop and the colors were fine, so take that as you will.

Kyle Gospo•5mo ago

This appears to be a fun new Mesa bug There's a patch I can ship to correct it, but copr is down So it'll be a bit of a wait Mesa build is done Testing is building with it now If nothing implodes I'll do a stable build of it

Solution

TeamLinux01•5mo ago

Thank you so much, updated to the new image and the colors are fine again.

DevilFish303•5mo ago

confirmed as well to be working thanks a bunch!

TyberBei•5mo ago

Works for me too. thanks!

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