Linux Tips: Fixing Blue YouTube People

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Carla Schroder
Dec 4, 2012

There is a Flash video problem that is peculiar to Linux users using certain Nvidia graphics cards, and that is YouTube and other Flash videos render everything with a blue tint, so that people look like Smurfs, or like the Na’vi in Avatar.

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Carla Schroder

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