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.
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