| Stephen Gran on 20 Jan 2008 09:03:09 -0800 |
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On Jan 18, 2008 7:34 PM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote: > as part of my forced migration from Win, I have some bizarro dual head > ATI Radeon Ridiculous Radiation card with a cute little fan and pretty > stickers on it. > > Ubuntu had no problem installing at all. I believe it went right to > VESA (and never collected $200). The *real* fun started when I > attempted to actually MAKE it run dual head. After install I had > dual-mono monitors, meaning that I got the same image on both. > > Someone online suggested using the flgrx(?) drivers. I trod lightly, > first just getting the card to recognize the monitors, which it didn't > (and wouldn't). I manually set the monitors, hit TEST, and *poof* Black > Screen of Death (nothing at all - nada - non). It never came back after > test. > > After putzing around with xorg.conf and rebooting a lot, I got back to > dual-mono. I located the ati driver (a real feat if you've never messed > with this before), said a prayer to Hendrix, and let her rip. Have you tried the radeonhd driver? It's in Debian unstable, but I'm not sure if it's in any released distros yet. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | WRONG! | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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