<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM, GMAIL - James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Ken Moffat wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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So I would really need to get a DVI cable and then it would work.<br></blockquote><div><br>Worked for me.... <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What has been your experience with the ATI graphics?</blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
<br>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)<br>
<br>Hope this helps a bit,<br>Ken<br><br></div></div><br>