While researching a bit about this, I found this couple of threads on the xorg mailing list, which may be relevant to this bug.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/7169/ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/7146/ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/10483 BTW, as I said, I've been using mga over the framebuffer now. It is not 100% satisfactory speedwise (no direct rendering?), but still better than using the vesa driver. -- Matrox MGA200 doesn't work after upgrade from Dapper to Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/58721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs