{"id":98,"date":"2007-02-02T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-02-02T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T08:59:02","slug":"radeon-xinerama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Radeon Xinerama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I put a new graphics card into my desktop machine (a CGA-P1652 RADEON X1650PRO 512MB) . I hooked my 2 big screens on it and rebooted. My ubuntu dapper couldn&#8217;t start gdm (ffcourse). So I apt-getted the ATI drivers and did a<strong> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org<\/strong>, still couldn&#8217;t boot. So I started searching, after a while I found the <strong>aticonfig<\/strong> tool, one word <strong>sweet<\/strong>. I ran it witht he option for dual screen setup and he made a template xorg.conf file.<\/p>\n<p>After adding the Xinerama option and setting the resolutions, I now have a nice widescreen view of my desktop and I can drag my windows over both of them. Life is great! I really believe that multiple screens do increase performance. I also liked the fact that my dapper box now has the ability to modify my screen resolutions using the gnome tool. The last time I did the dual screen setup with ubuntu, the app crashed, guess it wasn&#8217;t ready for dual screens. Now it works like a charm!<\/p>\n<p>So people out there with radeon setup problems, one tool : <strong>aticonfig<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I put a new graphics card into my desktop machine (a CGA-P1652 RADEON X1650PRO 512MB) . I hooked my 2 big screens on it and rebooted. My ubuntu dapper couldn&#8217;t start gdm (ffcourse). So I apt-getted the ATI drivers and did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org, still couldn&#8217;t boot. So I started searching, after a while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radeon Xinerama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-informatics","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U9nk-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}