nUbuntu Dual Monitor Help!
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Compaq Presario Desktop AMD Sempron Processor ATI Radeon 8500 LE/R200 QL HP L1940T Monitor Norwood Micro Generic Monitor nUbuntu 8.12 Beta I am trying to run dual monitors on nUbuntu with kde desktop installed I would like them to run as separate desktops and I can drag windows from one to the other. I have 2 ports on my ATI graphics card. one is VGA and one is DVI. I have an adapter on the DVI port to make it VGA. I have both screens plugged into the ports and right now they are cloning each other. The Generic configuration for my xorg.conf file is this: Code:
Section "Device" Code:
Section "ServerLayout" |
New xorg doesn't even need an xorg.conf, so most of the older xorg settings are being removed. Mine looks like this:
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig |
Thanks, I'll look into a ATI driver tool to configure it.
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nnicnac,
Please do not post the exact same issue in more than one place. Other members would rather find your thread once and keep the discussion in a single location. Your other thread HERE will be closed. For further info about creating threads and general LQ use, please read This Thank you, Sasha |
AHAHA I figured out your major problem already!!! Oh man, so my roomate has a 9200 and if he didn't have that I don't know squat about ATI. Every chip r300 and below has been discontinued, that means your r200, the r250 (9xxx) and whatever the r300 is. You have to use the opensource drivers for ATI to get anything decent working. So go look towards the mesa drivers for ati, and good luck you will need it. Pretty much ATI dropped support for the old cards, so you can't install the propriatiary drivers.
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It's a headache getting the older cards to work that's why I said good luck, AMD/ATi kind of made things muck. Just google ATI Open Source Driver and try different solutions. Some of the xorg flags still work and will help the card, though finding out what they are... It's a mess =( trial and error. I did get a nice FPS in glxgears once, don't remember how, but full 3D and other support is there.
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:) :) :)WOOHOOO..GOT IT WORKING!!! I just used xrandr to configure my screens and everything worked PERFECT!!! wow, 2 weeks and the solution only took me like 10 min. Thanks for all the replies. :) :)
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