--- On Thu, 12/30/10, Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote:
> From: Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] dual monitors with ati radeon > To: gnewsense-users@nongnu.org > Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 1:41 PM > Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Hi, Noob question: I'm trying to setup my monitors > through > > gnome-display-properties so that I can stretch the > desktop across two > > monitors. But I'm running into problems because > any time I try to > > set the resolution above 640x480 and click "Apply" > either the second > > monitor shuts off completely, or the 1st monitor's > output is just > > cloned to the second. I looked online for any > information, but most > > of what I found was about laptops + external monitor > or really odd > > setups. I'm running deltah 2.3 with an ati > radeon 300SE*. Any > > advice or links to resources? > > I believe the Radeon driver in gNewSense is not (fully) > functional because of non-free firmware that was removed. > You may be using a more generic driver that doesn't support > 2 monitors. Executing this command in a terminal gives you > an idea about which driver you're using: > > grep drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log Thanks, I get: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so At 640x480 on both monitors, it actually is successful and I get a continuous desktop across the monitors. But any other combination of resolutions either shuts one of the monitors off or clones it. -Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
