Dual monitor doesnt work with Additional Driver

[Ric Moore]

On 05/10/2012 04:12 AM, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> Did you try using aticonfig?  I haven't used the proprietary ATI
> drivers in a long time, but I remember that I had to use that utility
> to control the bulk of the config when I was using the non-free
> drivers.  HTH

That is what I was going to suggest. Your desktop preferences won't hold 
water unless the driver is tuned to your needs first.  I use nVidia and 
with the driver a nvidia-setup program is installed. So, use whatever 
ATI provides that will edit and write out your xorg.conf file for you. 
Jared is steering you in the right direction. Ric

p/s it's in the repo "catalyst control center" for Linux.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-catalyst/pages/catalyst.aspx
...describes what it does, and that includes setting up dual displays.

Just fire up synaptic and search on catalyst. You should be in the home 
stretch now! Let us know it this works. Ric



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