Comment 37 for bug 1541082

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> Just found out that the needed xserver-xorg-video-r128 package is no
> longer installed by default in Yakkety. Maybe this is also the case in
> Xenial. So the easy solution for you would be to "sudo apt-get install
> xserver-xorg-video-r128" and reboot. Maybe you get an accelerated 24bpp
> desktop again without needing a supplementary xorg.conf!
>
>
@ernst:

So I ran that suggestion, and rebooted . . . and depending on how you look
at it, it either "solved" the "blotchy graphics" problem . . . or it didn't
. . . as the display came back to an "energized" display of blackness. I
can see that the display is "getting connected" . . . but, showing as
lighter in the corners, but overall . . . black. So, indeed the blotchy
graphics are no longer a problem . . . . : - )

On reboot the "TTY" logging info shows up, and I recall that back when we
both started talking about this "slow booting" problem, that then, as now
there is the line "aty128fb invalid ROM contents" . . . and I remember
tryiing to find "aty128" in synaptic and or running that in the terminal .
. . and nothing showed up.

Anyway, today that data shows up, all the stuff prior to the log in splash
can be seen, but the log in splash is "black" . . . one difference is that
previously it took a number of windows showing these "errors" to get to the
splash . . . today it got to the black much faster.

From a TTY I ran sudo update/upgrade . . . and I ran "sudo apt-get -f
install" and it just showed the previous kernel to be "removed." I shut
the machine down and cold booted a couple times . . . then I ran "lsmod"
and, it was off the side of the screen, but I didn't see any "r128" or
anything listed for "video" . . . whereas there was a bunch of modules for
"snd" . . . .

I was going to give up but, for humor I checked the xorg.conf file, which
was as I thought, empty. I then tried to run "sudo Xorg-configure" from
the TTY and it brought back a "fatal server error" E) Server is already
active for display 0. If this server is no longer running, remove
/tmp/.XO-lock (or is that /tmp/.X0???) and start again . . . . [This step
is beyond my knowledge or experience, so I didn't try that out.]

Possibly that is referring to the fact that the display seems to be
"energized" with black light, but it isn't showing the blotchy graphics or
anything else for that matter . . . . Obviously I could "rm" r128, but, if
there are any other suggestions to try, I'll give it a shot. I'm not quite
understanding why there was a "fatal error" on the "Xorg -configure"
gambit, I've done that a few times, from the TTY . . . and then "moved" it
or "cp" it into the etc/X11 or whatever, file . . . but this time it didn't
let me do that, for then possibly editing the "r128" module into it, etc.

Any ideas?

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