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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #118605
  2. Comment #99

Comment 99 for bug 118605

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flaccid (chris-xhost) wrote :

@Robert Bernecky

1, Complaining to AMD/ATI tends to do nothing but frustrate people due to the lack of any response on their part
2. ATI *did* release open specification for its video driver, or at least the parts they could or would due to licensing and other IP gripes. I guess it enabled better development of the open-source Xorg driver, but has only relinquished their responsibility with fglrx.
3. fglrx does not support XrandR so dual head needs to be done via Xinerama or similar eg. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors/ATI
4. switch user and dual display should work Ok under the open-source "ati" or "radeon" driver.
5. In this case you can't blame Linux, but you can blame AMD for lack of support and maintainence of the driver and Ubuntu for its lack of action - Its still not proven which one is exactly at fault and why; but it do looks like the ATI driver is doing something non-standard

Unfortunately none of this gets us closer to fixing this bug.