Lubuntu 13.10 on Sony Vaio PCG-F540 - Wrong Colors

[Federico Leoni]

2013/11/14 Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>:
> 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.
>>
>> Let us know.
>>
> I submitted a bug-report from that machine.  Here is the link to it, if it
> affects any of you:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251384
>
> Since this machine has a maximum memory capacity of 256 megabytes, and has a
> speed of only 500 megahertz, I'm doubtful very many people are encountering
> the problem.
>
> Thanks for the information about that graphics chip-set being supported.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
Hi Again,

I've seen your bug report right now. Thanks.

Since the splash screen is managed by grub using vesa driver isn't so
simple understand if the guilty is the xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
package or a faulty kernel module. Did you try to install the kernel
3.2 ( the links I've posted) ?

F.