pk stuff

Somehow my ThinkPad (T60p) desktop never seems big enough so whenever possible I like to plug in a second monitor. Until recently, Ubuntu required all sorts of messing around in xorg.conf, but fortunately the situation is somewhat improved with Hardy. To be fair, much of this configuration mess is probably due to ATI’s less than stellar Linux support, which is slowly improving.

First, always backup your existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf !!!  Virtually every screen config tool I’ve used under Linux has ultimately toasted my xorg.conf file.

I found “amdcccle” produced the best results, with Compiz still operational.

Others may prefer “aticonfig –initial=dual-head“, which also worked but left my Compiz out of action.

Both are far from perfect and this is one area where Ubuntu (and other distros) still lag far behind Windows and OSX.