I'm fairly certain all these issues have been worked out in current
Hardy. Also note there is now a GUI utility 'Screen Resolution' for
configuring dual monitors which may make the procedure easier.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
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Thank you A.Sokolowski (and Dragonmaster Lou)!
My video card only has a single DVI port, and I use a splitter to plug
in my monitors using two DVI cables. Therefore I modified your
suggestion slightly.
I put the following at the bottom of my /etc/profile:
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024
xr
OK, I found some workaround (based on post by Dragonmaster Lou: http
://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=574426&page=2)
set in profile:
xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024
xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of DVI-0 --mode 1280x1024
and in xorg.conf, in section "Screen":
SubSec
The same problem on Gutsy Gibbon... Radeon 9200, 2x Flatron L1730P, and when
trying to enable second Screen in xorg.conf (as it was on Feisty Fawn) - it
fails with the message:
"XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0
requests (0 known processed) with 0 even
I'm having the same problem. The 'Hardware Information' app lists my
video card as: Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
Under Feisty I was successfully using Xinerama to enable dual monitors.
Just this morning I upgraded to Gutsy, and no matter what I do I cannot
get it to work.
When I booted into G
CrawfordBest: please try with 7.10 beta if it works better. You can
change the dualhead-settings using xrandr (man xrandr). Cloned mode is
used by default I think.
others: mergedfb and xinerama-support has been deprecated in favor of
randr-1.2.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Here too, radeon 9550 cannot get dual monitors config to work, the
'screens and graphics' crashes. Changing xorg.conf also don't worked. on
Feisty everything worked well but with fglx drivers.
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I have a Radeon 9200 SE. I can't get it to work in Gutsy, not even by
copying the same xorg.conf I had with feisty.
Xosé
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