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I am brand new to Ubuntu and Linux, so please forgive my inexperience.

During installation, the OS did not detect my graphics card and all that appears under the display settings is the "Built in display" which will not allow me to change any settings and unhappily is set to a 640 x 480 resolution.

I have a Matrox G200eR2 Graphics card, installed on a Dell Poweredge T130 server, running the Ubuntu Desktop OS. I have downloaded the correct proprietary driver for Linux from the Matrox website and have extracted it to a folder Named Matrox Driver which is under the downloads file folder.

My question is, where (in what folder) do I place the Graphics card driver so that the Ubuntu Desktop OS recognizes it and allows me to change the resolution?

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Craig Timmreck
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: I had the same problem, but there is a simple solution:

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-mga

... restart X or reboot your system. I don't have a xorg.conf (autodetect) and the resolution is now the right one. Now I have to deal with a very laggy graphical response. I'll update my post, if I found a working solution.

EDIT 1: I installed the new mga-driver v1.6.5. But I don't have any DRI support. Resizing/redrawing windows is still laggy.

lshw -c video

  *-display UNGEFORDERT   
       Beschreibung: VGA compatible controller
       Produkt: G200eR2
       Hersteller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
       Physische ID: 0
       Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:07:00.0
       Version: 01
       Breite: 32 bits
       Takt: 33MHz
       Fähigkeiten: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       Konfiguration: latency=64 maxlatency=32 mingnt=16
       Ressourcen: memory:91000000-91ffffff memory:92800000-92803fff memory:92000000-927fffff

Xorg.0.log http://pastebin.com/fjuvrXwg

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