Dual monitor doesnt work with Additional Driver

[Liam Proven]

On 10 May 2012 09:38, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Yup, that's what I was going to say.

If you're using proprietary drives, I think that you need to use the
proprietary setup tool as well, whatever your chipset.

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