Thread: Dual Monitors, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M?

i have old gateway notebook. jaunty runs on no longer supported , presents variety of issues me time goes by. want run lucid on bcm4318 wifi card not stay connected, though officially said work. i've spent hours on no success. decided try oneiric ocelet, though it's such old pc. wifi works again, want use s-video output use tv second display. not recognize second display in display properties. seems no version past jaunty going work on notebook.

video: ati radeon xpress 200m 5955 (pcie)

proprietary ati drivers haven't worked card long time, can't try those.

bummer windows xp works flawlessly on always, dual monitors , all. plug in tv , voila! works. big reason switched linux years ago because allowed prolonged use of older hardware. doesn't seem coming true me in case.

(unrelated: unity makes linux practically unusable me, major downside moving forward ubuntu, that's issue.)

there might hope (though read card has poor linux support-at least in 10.04):
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon

dual-head support
see xrandr 1.2 documentation how set multiple monitors.

newer version of opensource drivers works seems support card better...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/radeondriver

speed things why not use xubuntu 11.10?

ok anyway winxp works fine, os (especially it's kernel) 2001, while 11.10 2011. old ubuntu, know, works fine.

luck solving issue.

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