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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #282648
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 282648

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 282648] Re: Attempting to do dual-head with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 can't go above 640x480

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:57:40PM -0000, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Thanks for that, Bryce. Indeed, adding a "Virtual 2304 1024" line to
> xorg.conf allows me to run my monitors alongside each other at full
> resolution.
>
> However, I would agree with you that having to set Virtual at all is a
> bug. However, I couldn't find any bugs that seem to mention it.
>
> >From what I gather from your comment, the GNOME Screen Resolution tool
> can set the Virtual property on-the-fly. The reason I didn't discover
> that is because I run the stock GNOME 2.22 control panel, which is not
> xrandr 1.2-aware -- not the Ubuntu-provided one, which is aware of
> multi-monitor setups. Is it possible to do set Virtual with xrandr or
> radeontool on-the-fly? I couldn't find a way to do it.

Guess you're on your own in that case. Maybe talk to the GNOME guys.
You can always just add it manually to xorg.conf.

Bryce