[ale] :Best way to set up 2nd monitor

[Scott Castaline]

On 12/28/2010 09:30 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:03:16 -0500
> Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> One more dumb question. Am I correct in assuming that the only way
>> that I can get more than one video device based on ATI to work is
>> with the proprietary Catalyst drivers, and the oss radeon driver
>> won't work?
> We have a laptop here running two displays.  It has a Radeon X1400 and
> is using the open source driver.  The last time I checked, which might
> have been almost two years ago, the Catalyst driver didn't support
> adding displays after the x server is already up and running.  The open
> source driver can add and remove displays on the fly.
>
> Pat
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I think I may have finally figured out why I'm having problems. It seems 
that the integrated chip needs something newer than my HD3650. According 
to Gigabyte I need at least a HD 5450 in order for the combination to 
work. I tried going back to using the ViewSonic on the DVI and the VIZIO 
on the VGA and Catalyst wouldn't allow the right screen resolution of 
either one.  So I guess I'm going to have to get a 5xxx series graphic 
card.