I regularly use two monitors on my laptop with the integrated Intel GPU. I also have an ATI 4890 at home that does the same trick. In both cases the monitors are not matched (IE. different resolutions) and it just works.
Have you tried using xrandr from the command line to control the second monitor? I have some basic usage examples here: https://www.meganerd.ca/site/node/12 The xrandr wiki can be found here: http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Ralph Boland <[email protected]> wrote: > At last month's clug meeting Dafydd C. handed out a number od dual head > graphics > cards of which i pickup one, a colorgraphic Predator LT 2. > > Has anybody gotten the graphics card to work in dual monitor mode? > > I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on an DMD Athlon II processor but have gotten nowhere. > When I boot up with this card installed I get one monitor correctly > displayed (1280-1024) > but the other monitor displays text identifying the graphics card and > a flashing cursor. > > I searched the Internet on how to get dual monitor mode to work. > These is lots of > information available but the information is dependent upon the graphics card > used and, unfortunately, none of the information I found was specific to this > graphics card. > > Has anybody had success with Ubuntu and a different dual head graphics card? > I have reached the point of simply buying a card rather than trying to > get this card > to work. > > Regards, > > Ralph (Rocky) Boland > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
