Comments on: Karmic Koala & ATI Radeon

By: grelbar

grelbar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:41:22 +0000

Ok, sorry for the lateness, but here's the two files: xorg.conf (dual screen with fglrx drivers) xorg.radeon.dual.conf (dual screen with radeon drivers)

By: grelbar

grelbar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:05:33 +0000

Plus also, since you get it working, but it stops working after a moment, it might be a heat-issue. A colleague has the same issue on an IBM laptop, where the graphics chip heats up too much when a second screen is connected. Could this be the issue? Since i assume it works with a single screen ?

By: grelbar

grelbar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:55:42 +0000

Oh wow. Looks pretty messed up!

I’ll post my xorg.conf which is very minimalistic and you should be able to just copy this one on top of your own file. I have a version for both fglrx and radeon drivers, so which ever you use, you should be able to get it working.

The only problem is, i’m at work, so i’ll post it when i get home.

By: tiago de souza moraes

tiago de souza moraes — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:15:44 +0000

Hello! Thanks by the tip! But i have a problem, after few minustes of the use, crash, break the system, see:

http://www.futuria.com.br/error/Image017.jpg

Karmic Koala – Dual Head Video – BIG
ati radeon express 200M – ACER Notebok
resolution 3360 – 1050

Any sugestion is welcome!

Thank you!

By: grelbar

grelbar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:41:11 +0000

Hey, try the new Beta if you haven’t already. It works much better, and i think ATI has added proper support for the new kernel now. You can run either the propietary fglrx driver, or the radeon driver, depending on what you need, and what works for you. So far, no major problems with the fglrx driver which didn’t work at all in Karmic before the beta.

By: jPax

jPax — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:09:30 +0000

Yes, I’ve some issues too. Nevertheless, MESA drivers are ok, but I can’t use my second monitor and I feel like crap.

Using Jaunty, I had to quit Compiz -it doesn’t worked at all- and I get used to my 2nd screen. Now, Karmic comes to my place and gave me Compiz, but not 2nd screen. Sh*t.

I’ll be waiting for ATI -again-. ¬¬

By: grelbar

grelbar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:01:48 +0000

Quite possible, or then a package changed with the same effect. Glad i could help a little at least.

Still waiting for the official fglrx drivers from ATI/AMD with kernel 2.6.31-> support…

By: mudfly

mudfly — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:53:29 +0000

repo must have changed since your post, had an issue with ati drivers under all of karmic so far, but I did try and enable proprietary drivers. I just changed xorg.conf to radeon and had to install xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (not actually sure if I needed to, but it jumped out on a apt-cache search radeon). In any case, this post help me resolve my issues to some degree. Thanks!