Comments on: Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy

By: hiredgoon

hiredgoon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:40:18 +0000

James man I love you. Upgrading to Gutsy broke my fglrx dual-head display. This got me working again.

-hg

By: Jaakko

Jaakko — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:06:47 +0000

I know it’s possible to use s-video tv-out with radeon(9000) & randr in Gutsy but does anyone know if overscan is possible with this approach? Is there a spesific parameter for randr to do this?

By: justin

justin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:11:22 +0000

I also tried displayconfig-gtk, and no joy. This procedure worked for me. Thanks for posting it.

By: Tolero

Tolero — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:13:58 +0000

I'm impressed much how well did the gutsy detected my card. But I did a fresh install and I have nvidia card.

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:34:23 +0000

According to the https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331716, the firefox rendering problem should get fixed in Firefox 3.0 (and other Gecko 1.9 based applications). That is a little late for Gutsy though.

By: James

James — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:32:57 +0000

Does http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2007/09/textalicious.html look like it’ll fix the problem?

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:24:09 +0000

I just gave displayconfig-gtk a go, and ran into a few problems:

1. the configuration it generates caused the X server to crash.

2. it generated a traditional Xinerama configuration, which is a step back from merged FB (no OpenGL on second head, drawing operations that span two heads need to be performed once for each framebuffer, etc).

Using the xrandr “monitor-*” device options gives me a single framebuffer with each monitor displaying a portion of it (as I had with MergedFB). As an added bonus, I can reconfigure things at runtime if I want to.

By: Smarter

Smarter — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:29:38 +0000

Why didn’t you just used displayconfig-gtk to configure your dual head?