Multiple monitor setup in Ubuntu Dapper

Posted September 5, 2006 @ 9:13 pm   

Finally got around to setting up multiple monitors in Ubuntu… it turned out to be quite simple actually…

I installed the drivers for the ATI video card and ran a simple command

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) #Okay if it is already installed
sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
sudo depmod -a
sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
sudo shutdown -r now
sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal

This will make ubuntu much easier to use with my new 24″ monitor…

later,
J!

1 Comment so far

  1. TheCubanSpy on September 16th, 2006

    Thanks, for this, it did the trick, I had dual monitor working with the open source drivers after manually the xorg.conf, but after getting the proprietary driver that went out the window.

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