On Sony Vaio PCG-F540, colors are wrong: blue=green, red=blue, green=red

[Aere Greenway]

Having installed Lubuntu 13.10 an a Sony Vaio PCG-F540, the colors are wrong.

What should be blue, appears green. What should be red appears blue. What should be green appears red. I checked this by specifying R, G, B, hexadecimal values.

During the boot process (when Lubuntu with its logo, and the flashing dots below, displayed in graphics mode), the colors are correct. It isn't until the login screen appears that the colors are wrong. colors are wrong everywhere - in the wallpaper, and displaying photos, for example, as well as in the resource monitor task-bar applet (with which I tried different R,G,B values).

I was able to run the Lubuntu (LXLE version) 12.04 live CD, and the colors were correct everywhere I checked, so the problem appears to have been introduced after 12.04.

The symptoms were that the colors were wrong.

My expectations were that the colors would be right (blue=blue, red=red, and green=green).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-neomagic 1:1.2.7-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 14 11:28:06 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-14 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

​​​​this driver has been removed from Ubuntu, closing the bugs