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Topic: Second monitor works, but it doesn't show up.

So, I have an ATI graphics card with two outputs, VGA and DVI.  Both work completely fine and have no problem outputting to the screen.

The only issue is that xorg (or xrandr or whatev.) is not detecting them and just giving me like a default xorg.conf file.  I have no idea if this is normal as I have never really had any issue with linux distros not being able to detect everything and throw it together.  Is this the default behavior for this?

So, my real question is, is dual monitors possible with ATI cards and/or VGA and DVI outputs?  I have tried to get the restricted driver and it didn't find one (It finds it in every other distribution that I have tried.).  I have no idea what to do and all the googling I have done has only found me NVidia cards and just one little bitty mention about an ATI card, but no one ever answered the question.

So, should I just leave CrunchBang and go back to a distribution that actually can detect my monitors and graphics card? ;3

(Nothing against CrunchBang, it is just that I sort of would like to have dual monitors)

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Re: Second monitor works, but it doesn't show up.

I know I've gotten dual monitors to work on #! at some point. I did it on the 'layout' tab of grandr.

That said, I'm looking at it right now and it's not working; but I know it's possible.

Just Rick... Thanks.

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Re: Second monitor works, but it doesn't show up.

What output do you get from `xrandr`?

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  • Registered: 2010-11-08
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Re: Second monitor works, but it doesn't show up.

pvsage wrote:

What output do you get from `xrandr`?

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024       0.0*
   1152x864        0.0 
   1024x768        0.0 
   800x600         0.0 
   640x480         0.0 
   720x400         0.0

I hope that is what you were asking about...

Last edited by Mashew (2010-11-08 19:00:39)

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Re: Second monitor works, but it doesn't show up.

It is.

This is with both monitors connected?  Clearly either the video card isn't seeing one of them, or you need to install a new driver for the ATI card.  Hopefully someone else has a similar card and already has a solution...

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