Had the same problem on a Dell PowerEdge T430 with Ubuntu 16.10. Installing module mgag200 as suggested by Ivo Straka's (approach n. 1) worked for me. I followed the recipe in
http://askubuntu.com/questions/168279/how-do-i-build-a-single-in-tree- kernel-module just changing the kernel number, etc. # lshw -c display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: G200eR2 vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=mgag200 latency=64 maxlatency=32 mingnt=16 resources: irq:17 memory:90000000-90ffffff memory:91800000-91803fff memory:91000000-917fffff memory:c0000-dffff # uname -a Linux dell16 4.8.0-59-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 29 19:38:34 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316035 Title: matrox g200eR2 is unclaimed in 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1316035/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp