I had the same problem with Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell PowerEdge T610.
I managed to resolve it by upgrading to 4.15 hwe Kernel:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_-_Xenial_Xerus
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I have a Dell R430 server which suffers this issue.
My problem is that in a xrdp session, "xrandr -v" reports: "server
report RandR version 1.1."
After following steps, it still report RandR version is 1.1
0. load mag.ko
1. build and load maga200.ko
2. build mag_drv.so 1.6.5 (downloaded from
Had the same problem on a Dell PowerEdge R730 with Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
Installing module mgag200 as suggested by Ivo Straka's (approach n. 1) worked
for me.
But as Giorgio Signorini comment #61, after installed mgag200 module and set
xorg driver to mgag200 and restart X.
In /var/log/xorg.0.log,
** Also affects: xorg-server via
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Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** No longer affects: xorg-server
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For reference, a couple of users have been experiencing the same issue
on HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8, which use Matrox MGA G200EH, the
original culprit that caused the module mgag200 to be excluded from the
kernel years ago.
https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-Netservers/HP-ProLiant-
it is resolved at fedora 26 with xfce, I dont know with previous
versions.
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Note that after installing the mgag200 module, I also had to change Xorg
configuration, as described in comment #32, replacing "mga" with
"mgag200"
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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
Short version: kernel module driver "mgag200" did the trick for me. In kernel
config, it is represented by CONFIG_DRM_MGAG200.
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_MGAG200.html
I found a bug that is relevant to this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1642470 It says
that
Hp Microserver Gen8 with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Same problem.
sudo lshw -C display
[sudo] password for user:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200EH
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0.1
bus info:
HP ProLiant DL160 G6 using Matrox Systems G200eR2 is also affected in a
later version of Ubuntu (16.10) so this doesn't look as it was fixed
yet
sudo lshw -C display:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines
Dell PowerEdge T130 using a Matrox Systems G200eR2 is also affected
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Still the same on a brand new Dell PowerEdge R430. No GUI, CLI only.
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Same problem on my Dell R410, this page could speed up the graphic processing
faster:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/673968/regarding-graphical-issues-and-performance-in-ubuntu-14-04-lts-server-with-gui/674656#674656
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Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu:
Hi! This worked for me on a Dell PowerEdge R440
service lightdm stop
X --configure
mv xorg.conf.new /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-video.conf
service lightdm start
HTH
Andres Hidalgo
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Same problem on Intel S5520 motherboard that built in VGA card -- Matrox
Electronics System Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450.
Lubuntu Desktop 14.04 LTS
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*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
Also affects me on IBM M3 X3650 2U server, which has the same chip.
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Same problem on Cisco UCS C240 M4, confirmed on four hosts of the same type.
Matrox Electronics System Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02)
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hi, some problem on Dell PowerEdgte T320 with Matrox G200eR2.
me too remove the xserver-xorg-video-mga driver and then reboot and the
system is ok!
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I have informed Xorg developers.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91933
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #91933
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91933
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Same problem on IBM System x3400 M2, Ubuntu 14.04.3. Zoltán Maróti
solution indeed improved the graphical interface. The problem here is
that the text terminals (ctrl-alt-Fx) or booting in text mode without
loading lightdm renders an unreadable screen with green squares or blue
lines . I wonder
Same problem on IBM System x3100 M4, Ubuntu 14.04.3.
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Dell PowerEdge R210 affected by this issue
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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
Note that if you apply solution 1 and 2 above, you get the best of both:
you can still log with SSH with high resolution (full HD here) *and*
have a responsive low-resolution local terminal on site.
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*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G200eR2
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:06:00.0
The same problem in HP Proliant DL120 G7
Zoltan's solution doesn't work in this server
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Just wanted to report that Fedora server 21 seems to work completely
fine with this particular video card with 3d acceleration enabled out of
the box.
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Same problem with a Dell PowerEdge R720, video card Matrox Electronics Systems
Ltd. G200eR2
I try many ways but no one can be work fine with the ubuntu 14.04 ,
when i google the G200eR2's driver, i found a solution with this card, remove
the mga driver!
sudo apt-get remove
This problem is also there on any server built using Intel Server
S1200vRP family of boards. I am using S1200v3RPS and it has the MGA
G200e VGA controller which shows up in lshw as display UNCLAIMED...
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I did an online chat with Dell to see if they new anything about this
and they could not help. Here was there response:
Ok. Well, I had them review the article and they see many vendors
having the same issue. We don't have any updates / patches for the
Matrox graphics card for this kind of issue.
Still the same issue on 2 new Dell T630 servers Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:14.04
Codename: trusty
% lspci | grep VGA
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems
Same problem with a Dell PowerEdge R720, videocard Matrox Electronics
Systems Ltd. G200eR2
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Me too, same problem with eight HP ProLiant Gen8 DL380p, video card
Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200EH.
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Find a way to workaround.
I have a PowerEdge R620 which installed a Ubuntu 12.04 TLS. And I found
the screen refreshing became very slow. So I share the same issue with
yours.
First,then we have to install vesa driver:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa
Then, for some of the Ubuntu
Same problem. Manually driving the display at 1280x1024 as suggested by
post #7 does not fix the issue in 14.04. 12.04 performance was fine.
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Presumably Ubuntu devs will not be interested in this. It needs
reporting by everyone to the Xorg developers to get their attention.
How does one do that?
Does anyone know WHY they decided to rip out XAA (whatever that is)?
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Same problem with certified [PowerEdge
R320](http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201207-11432/) and
Ubuntu 14.04.
Personally, I am not necessarily interested in getting 3D acceleration
supported for such an old card (and for a server!). *However*, I'd like
basic graphic functionality to
The same with Dell PowerEdge T620 and Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
lshw -C display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G200eR2
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:0a:00.0
version: 00
Same with a Dell PowerEdge T630.
The workaround works fine but windows control is not smooth as with a standard
2-D video card.
Shai
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Same proble here with Dell PowerEdge R320.
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Same problem with Dell PowerEdge T420.
I tried the hack provided by Zoltan but its not working for me!!!
I am going to try ubuntu 12.04 instead.
hope that ubuntu will provide some solution in its updates...
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Same problem with DELL PowerEdge R515 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server
64-bit.
Certified here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201106-8086/
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Same problem with Dell PowerEdge R610, lubuntu 14.04
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Status in “xorg-server”
Adapting Andromalius solution with a simple xorg.conf with
Section Device
Identifier Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200eR2
Driver vesa
Option OldDmaInit True
EndSection
Brings back a usable system UI-wise on the T320. The graphics card is
still unclaimed though:
sudo lshw -C
Same problem with DELL PowerEdge T610.
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Same problem with certified DELL PowerEdge T320
(http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201210-12063/)
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matrox
Just confirming, same thing here on an IBM x3500 M3:
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200EV
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:07:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
Same problem with FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX300S7 with Ubuntu 14.04
$ sudo lshw -C display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1)
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info:
Same problem with DELL PowerEdge R320 with xUbuntu 14.04
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Exactly same issue on HP ML310e
ubu324:/$ sudo lshw -c display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200EH
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@:01:00.1
version: 00
Hi, same problem with MGA G200EV
lshw -C display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: MGA G200EV
vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@:07:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
Newly purchased Dell T420, same issue.
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Hi Zoltan, Thank you for your tips. For the moment the servers are back
in their cardboard boxes but I will try this after the weekend and
report back here.
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Hi,
Problem could be that you have other packages installed in the xorg-driver
package which were pulled automatically when you installed X. That means
you have probably other modules and dependencies unresolved. What I did was
first of all removing all unecessary xorg driver packages, xorg
Same problem with DELL PowerEdge R420 with Ubuntu 14.04
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I am having exactly the same issue as this on two brand new Dell
PowerEdge R360 which I am setting up for the first time. This server is
also certified for use with 14.04 LTS
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201207-11432/
I tried to apply Zoltan's hack but ended up with a system that
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Hi,
Actually if you read through my report I finally figured what is the
problem. It is not ubuntu's fault. Xorg upstream simply decided to rip XAA
from Xorg 1.13, and 14.04 has Xorg 1.15 or something like that. So
basically in 12.04 there was no hardware acceleration either unless you
defined
Thanks a lot for your reply. I will try it out.. but in the end I might
just wait for an official solution.
Thanks again!
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Any update?
Having the same problem on a Dell PowerEdge T420, 2D acceleration is not
working on 14.04, whereas on 12.04 it worked just fine.
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I should mention that it was working flawlessly in 12.04, we had harware
acceleration with MGA driver at 1920x1080@60hz resolution.
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Some relevant information from Xorg.0.log
12.04 Xorg.0.log
[ 4.534] (--) PCI:*(0:10:0:0) 102b:0534:1028:04cf rev 0, Mem @
0xd800/16777216, 0xdeffc000/16384, 0xde00/8388608
[ 4.557] (--) MGA(0): Chipset: mgag200 ER SH7757
[ 4.557] (--) MGA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD800
Actually it seems that the cause is the new xserver-xorg-core, it seems
that XAA rendering was ripped out from 1.15.1 (no libxaa.so in package).
In old Xorg.0.log rendering was falling back to XAA:
[ 4.696] (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
[ 4.696]Screen to
Reading documentation on the mga_drv.so and checking the source files of
xserver-xorg-video-mga_1.6.3-1build1_amd64.deb I see that matrox driver has a
built in support for EXA in config.h
/* Build support for Exa */
#define USE_EXA 1
/* Build support for XAA */
/* #undef USE_XAA */
/* Version
Activating EXA
Section Device
Identifier mga
Driver mga
Option AccelMethod EXA
Option EXANoComposite True
Option EXANoDownloadFromScreen True
Option EXANoUploadToScreen True
Endsection
makes it worse than normal software render.
It results in
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