Dual Monitor Setups

[Ken Moffat]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM, GMAIL - James McDonald <
james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:

> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>> I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-52H m/b with built in ATI graphics that will
>> do dual monitors, one VGA, one DVI. I use Ubuntu for that, it required the
>> proprietary ATI drivers, and I had to fiddle with the setup, but it worked.
>>
> So I would really need to get a DVI cable and then it would work.
>

Worked for me....

>
> What has been your experience with the ATI graphics?


Right now I'm using the xserver.xorg.video.ati and/or
xserver.xorg.video.radeon module in Ubuntu, stock install, stock xorg.conf
(basically blank) and it works ok. I don't game, so have no idea about
graphics speed.

When I was using dual monitors I tried fglrx without success, but the
downloaded ATI proprietary driver installed and found the dual monitors. I
was pretty happy, but it got to be a hassle because I quadruple boot Debian,
Win7, Vista and Ubuntu. I like Debian, but it wouldn't properly use the
second monitor, no matter how much I fiddled. It saw it but either used it
as a second duplicate display, or wouldn't allow dragging windows from one
screen to the other and the cursor behavior was erratic. I gave it up, but
it was fun for a while, and worked well ( of course ) in Windows. If you use
just one distro, and the downloaded graphics drivers work, you will be
happy. (hopefully... but it's been a few month, so ymmv)

Hope this helps a bit,
Ken
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