Getting Dual Screens to work with an ATI Radeon > 8500 and (K)Ubuntu Gutsy
This was quite the sore topic for me, which has turned me off of ATI once and for all. But I got it working and wanted to share my findings with the community
So . . .
What I did, was to download the driver from ATI. Then build a package for gutsy (I renamed the download because it was too long to type and I am lazy):
You're not done yet. The above will install the xorg driver, but not the kernel module. It seems that I had to do that myself. This is contained in the fglrx-kernel-source package that you installed above.
cd into /usr/src, and run
sudo tar xvfj fglrx.tar.bz2
This will create a modules directory. cd into modules/fglrx and run the make.sh. this will build the fglrx kernel module.
cd /usr/src/modules
sudo ./make.sh
If all is built well, you should have a module called fglrx.ko. Copy this into /lib/modules/<your kernel version>/volatile/.
