Feisty installed decent fglrx drivers out of the bag for me, but i still cant get twin monitors running and theyre the same damn monitor so the same res.

i dont think it is all that great for linux noobs, how many of your family members would you give gparted to? then again, i wouldnt trust all of the people i know to install windows either. in terms of use though, its alright.

Matt

Quote from: bytejunkieFeisty installed decent fglrx drivers out of the bag for me, but i still cant get twin monitors running and theyre the same damn monitor so the same res.

i dont think it is all that great for linux noobs, how many of your family members would you give gparted to? then again, i wouldnt trust all of the people i know to install windows either. in terms of use though, its alright.

Matt

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=162363&highlight=ati+dual+monitor

Might be worth a look

Also useful: http://www.ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/

I got rid of dual monitors in the end.  Seperate X windows means you cant drag a window from one monitor to the next, which meant I didnt really use one of the screens.

But Beryl, my god its fricking amazing.  Had to do a fair bit of xorg.conf mucking about to get it to work, but its soooooooo worth it.

Im running Fiesty Fawn KDE at the moment All is working fine now. Took a while to config certain things.

You can do dualscreen with beryl, you just have to do it in a special way thats not 2 separate x-screens. You use 1(really wide) screen and enable Xinerama. That tells windows not to appear dead in the centre when they want to, so you dont get them exactly on the join between screens. Ill see if I cant dig up the method I used last time.

If you use one really wide screen and your monitors are of different resolutions, does the smaller monitor miss off some of the top and bottom of the desktop aread, or does it resize it?  When I was using twinview my smaller 17" only showed the centre of the right-hand half of the desktop area.  Really annoying, hence why i was running 2 seperate instances of X.