Same problem here on a certified PowerEdge r820 with Ubuntu server 14.04.2, no GUI installed, only CLI.
The framerate is very slow, using commands like 'ls' or 'less' is almost painful. Adding vesa or mga drivers didn't change a thing. I cannot put a personalized xorg.conf since xorg-server is not even installed. I found two separate workarounds (not fixes) to this: 1. install openssh server and log into the server from another machine. Everything works fine, fast and responsive. 2. modify /etc/default/grub to reduce the resolution of CLI by editing the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash vga=1024x768x24". Then run sudo update-grub and reboot. CLI is now low resolution but fast and responsive. I didn't try with higher resolution yet. I think I'll settle for using SSH anyway. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316035 Title: matrox g200eR2 is unclaimed in 14.04 Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a certified Dell PowerEdge T620 server (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201207-11426/) The matrox video card is not recognised: lspci | grep VGA 0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G200eR2 lshw -C display *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: G200eR2 vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=64 maxlatency=32 mingnt=16 resources: memory:d8000000-d8ffffff memory:deffc000-deffffff memory:de000000-de7fffff Thus xserver is not hardver accelerated. Also /dev/dri and /dev/dri/card0 is missing. kernel module mga is not loaded, although if i manually load by modprobe it works fine modprobe mga lsmod | grep mga mga 40811 0 drm 302817 1 mga To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1316035/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
