Lubuntu 13.10 on Sony Vaio PCG-F540 - Wrong Colors

[Nio Wiklund]

On 2013-11-14 17:07, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 05:26 AM, Federico Leoni wrote:
>>
>> The Sony VAIO PCG-F540 has a video card from NeoMagic (MagicMedia
>> 256AV+) that seems to be fully supported by Ubuntu 13.10:
>>
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/en/man4/neomagic.4.html
>>
>> if the display works fine on 12.04 live CD without any additional
>> parameter then you probably need to open a bug report against
>> xserver-xorg-video-neomagic. I had a look to Launchpad and the bugs I
>> found are listed here:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=neomagic&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=
>>
>> But I didn't see nothing about wrong colors, just banding issues due
>> to the lack of dithering on drivers.
>>
>> And Aere, did you try with a Lubuntu 12.04 live CD to see if the color
>> are right? As far as I remember LXLE is focused to strongly support
>> old chipsets too. Perhaps they are using some additional settings or
>> different drivers.
>>
> Federico:
> 
> Thanks for the information.  I will be pursuing it further, as you
> suggested. 
> 
> For now, the data-sheet I have on the machine, describes its graphics as
> follows:
> 
> NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV+ with 3.0 MB SGRAM.  128-bit accelerator and
> MPEG playback acceleration.
> 
> The first link you supplied indicates something I think matches:
> 
> MagicGraph 256AV+ (NM2230)
> 
> I no longer have the Lubuntu 12.04 live CD because that system is no longer supported (and you 
> probably can't download it anymore, though I didn't try).  
> 
> I used the LXLE version of Lubuntu 12.04 because it is still supported. 
> 
> I plan to submit a bug documenting the problem. 
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere
> 
Hi Aere,

Phill keeps copies of previous versions. Download from

http://phillw.net/isos/lubuntu/precise/

Best regards
Nio