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Problem with Linux X.org drivers on Packard Bell Easynote MX37-T-003 laptop with SIS Mirage 3+ (SiS M672 chipset) video card.

 

lspci show this:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)


Screenshots of bad colors.

And here a picture with the same situation from another user 

Drivers from Barros Lee (he was a SIS employee):
sis_vga_200807_ubuntu_7.04.tgz
sis_vga_200812_ubuntu_7.10.tgz

Configuration file and log file:
xorg.conf.gz - 2008-09-25
Xorg.0.log.gz - 2008-09-25 

On the left there are screenshots of mixed-up colors, when using the sis driver.

You can fix this by inserting the following line in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Option "useROMData " "False"

This fix was found on the website http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/WikiBerd/index.php?page=LinuxSis67x by Dennis Schulmeister.

The discussion forum for support - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=615094

I had to take those pictures using a camera in mobile-phone. If you change fonts in Gnome (Systep->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts) to "monochromatic rendering" (I think this means - turn off anti-aliasing), the fonts can be seen pretty well (but the rest is not, especially wallpapers).