Comment 60 for bug 1316035

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