On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, info wrote:
I have an ATI Radeon X800 graphics card using the fglrx and AMD has
greatly improved the driver over the last year. The performance for my
X800 is the same as it would be in the other OS. AMD has also been
delivering same day graphics support for all of their new cards. So if
you wanted to buy the latest ATI 4870 graphics card it does work.
nVidia has support for their latest GFX, but it is in their beta
driver so don't expect that to work in any distro yet. Phoronix has
benchies if you want to see them.
I have yet to get dual monitor mode working with ATI's drivers. Tried
the catalyst control panel, the gnome panel, editing the xorg.conf
file.
Can get mirrored mode, but not xinerama. Anyone successfully got this
to work? Right now I'm dealing with mainly X1300 cards (not too
powerful).
I have an x800 and an x850 and no success getting dual monitor to work.
I have tried 10+ distros and no luck...
On the bright side, compiz works great on a single monitor with the
drivers that make Barry run and hide...
I have a Mobility Radeon X700 and it works well with the free X driver
with 1 monitor. I've only been able to get a 2nd monitor (separate
displays, not mirrored) with fglrx, but it works well. The AMD setup stuff
just worked.
Jon
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