Hey all,

I'm about to venture into the realm of dual displays, and I plan on doing it on my Dell Optiplex 755, equipped with an AMD/ATI HD2400XT graphics card.

Anybody here got any experiences with this specific card? Will it work?

I've managed to get it working just fine on a testsystem with an old nVidia card in it, but I've heard many gruesome tales about the AMD/ATI cards.

Any and all experiences are more than welcome!

/Thomas

With that card, you can either use the closed-source flgrx driver from Ati, or the ati driver in X.Org, or the radeonhd driver which is part of X.Org in Slackware (soon-to-be) 12.1.
The radeonhd driver is still in heavy development and lacks a lot of features (such as accelerated 3D support) but it will get there in the end. The ati driver is what I use, for my lower-end laptop GPU, and it supports dual-screen as well as TV-out without any problems (using xrandr).
The flgrx would be the ebst solution if you do not care about using binary-only drivers. But the ati driver certainly is worth the try (at least the one in slackware-current which is vastly improved over the one in 12.0).

Eric

Hey Eric,

Will the ati driver from current work with a vanilla Slackware 12, or do I need to update something?

And where can I find this driver?

Regards,
Thomas

You can not just update the ati driver, you will have to upgrade to the full Slackware 12.1 once it is released.

Eric

Ahh! I understand.

Thank you,
Thomas