Unfortunately this driver has suffered bit-rot upstream since the chip- set is ancient and not widely used, and support for it in the 12.04 and 14.04 releases is poor to non-existant.
Marking as "Won't Fix" since we haven't found the expertise to fix it in 7 years. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144178 Title: Silicon Motion X driver fails to correctly restore text mode; requires modprobe vga16fb fbcon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xf86-video-siliconmotion/+bug/144178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs