After quite a bit of searching, It works. Dual monitors on Ubuntu using an ATI Fire GL 3100. One monitor VGA, the other DVI. I can drag windows back and forth between monitors, and so far I'm quite happy. Once I found the necessary guides to get it going it was actually very easy to do. I used the following, the first to install the fgrlx proprietary ATI driver, and the second to configure xorg.conf using aticonfigure.
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=301941
Right now I'm still running from the Wubi install that I did, I'll probably do a fresh install this weekend and hose XP, or dual boot if I decide by then I'd still like to have it around.
On other notes, very easy to get mp3, m4a, avi to play. Google Desktop Search has a nice debian package that installs easily. Firefox 3 beta 5 is included and runs very nicely so far.
Overall, once I found the right guides to follow to get it setup, it was very easy to do.
6.05.2008
6.04.2008
Mission: Stop Spam (Interuppted), Dual Monitor Support
So spam can get through another day, for now dual monitor support will take precedence. On a whim I decided to try out wubi and the Ubuntu 8.04 on my desktop to see how well it supported everything. If I only had one monitor, I would be typing this running Ubuntu instead of Windows XP right now, but, so far the going has been rough.
For nearly two hours, and with added frustration because my wireless keyboard and mouse doesn't kick in for me to select which OS to boot in the boot menu ... I battled X and tried to get my two monitors to work properly. So far, no luck. I was unable to find any good guide on how to accomplish my feat, all of my Google searches were coming back with garbage. After two hours of frustration, I contemplated defeat.
In fact, due to my boredom with XP and my disgust of Vista, for a few minutes I started shopping for Macs that would support my two monitors, but the price would be too high I feel. Plus, I don't know if I really want a Mac, no VMware Server to play with.
Then, almost given up, I turned to Google and the Internets once more. I don't remember exactly how I got there, but I wound up at the FAQ for x.org and the dreaded XServer. There, it provided a link to the following site, http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide
dedicated to getting proprietary ATI drivers to work with Linux.
There now is hope once again. It may be time to get rid of XP and Microsoft in my personal computing environment. Tomorrow night I will attempt once again to get dual monitors working with Ubuntu. Wish me luck.
For nearly two hours, and with added frustration because my wireless keyboard and mouse doesn't kick in for me to select which OS to boot in the boot menu ... I battled X and tried to get my two monitors to work properly. So far, no luck. I was unable to find any good guide on how to accomplish my feat, all of my Google searches were coming back with garbage. After two hours of frustration, I contemplated defeat.
In fact, due to my boredom with XP and my disgust of Vista, for a few minutes I started shopping for Macs that would support my two monitors, but the price would be too high I feel. Plus, I don't know if I really want a Mac, no VMware Server to play with.
Then, almost given up, I turned to Google and the Internets once more. I don't remember exactly how I got there, but I wound up at the FAQ for x.org and the dreaded XServer. There, it provided a link to the following site, http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide
dedicated to getting proprietary ATI drivers to work with Linux.
There now is hope once again. It may be time to get rid of XP and Microsoft in my personal computing environment. Tomorrow night I will attempt once again to get dual monitors working with Ubuntu. Wish me luck.
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