Dual Monitor Configuration Problems

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I am slightly confused though on the difference between the catalyst drivers and fglrx(sp?) Drivers. If I click additional drivers in the system or utilities menu, it offers to install the fglxr drivers. Should I use those or catalyst?

There's no difference; the names Catalyst and fglrx both refer to AMD's proprietary driver.

I'm not sure if installing the proprietary driver automatically pulls in the Catalyst Control Centre utility. If it didn't, you can install it by entering

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle

into a Konsole terminal window, or use Muon package manager to install it. It might have some options for multiple screens, but as I don't use it myself I don't know for sure.

PS. I used to frequently misspell fglrx (you got it right though) until I found out what it stands for: FireGL and Radeon for X.

[Xplorer4x4]

My concern is do I really need to uninstall the xorg driver before using the proprietary drivers?

Also, over at crunchbanglinux, they made it sound as if the catalyst and fglrx were 2 different things, but maybe I misunderstood.

As for fglrx, I knew what it meant so I thought I had it right, but it was late and I was to lazy to look it up as I figured it would be clear what I meant either way.

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What I remember from when I last used a Radeon card a year or two ago was that I didn't need to uninstall the xorg driver - I'd just let "Jockey" (the program that runs when you go to Applications -> System -> Additional Drivers) handle the task of switching from using the open source xorg driver to the closed source driver. Never had a problem with it.

[Xplorer4x4]

Go figure, nothing is ever as easy as it sounds. So I install the graphics driver, and reboot. When I come back to jockey, the original driver(non-updates) shows as installed.Then I try to install the driver updates, and jockey throws a warning dialog and references the jockey.log file. After hitting ok I get an error that a program has crashed. When I look at jockey again, it now says the driver is NOT installed :s Jockey.log http://pastebin.com/QthVBcMP

[Xplorer4x4]

I see vmware reference in there and when I launch vmware player now, I get this error:
http://imgur.com/wBAJJ

[Xplorer4x4]

So I uninstalled vmware player, and tried again. No luck. So I found a suggestion on launchpad to install the packages manually. Again, I manage to get the non updated driver working, but the updates fails. I tried installing the updates using the package rather then apt or jockey. It acts like the updates install fine, but when I check Jockey it only shows the original driver installed.

[Xplorer4x4]

So I decided to try installing the packages via apt/konsole rather then jockey. It turns out the updates driver is meant to totally replace the original proprietary driver. I installed the updated driver and updated catalyst control center packages(which was pulled in with the driver anyways). Jockey still does not recognize either the original proprietary driver or the post-update driver as activated. Konsole/apt reports the updated driver and cc are installed. So am I good to go or do I need to activate them some how?

[Xplorer4x4]

I confirmed the proprietary post-release drivers were installed and working, but they worked horribly! It detected 2 monitors on the main screen where resolution is set, but when I tried to set HDTV left of DVI, it would not save the settings when I hit apply. Also, on the dual monitor settings screen it claimed I did not have 2 monitors installed. I may try the latest drivers off amd site and see if those are any better...thinking about it as I type, I did not try the catalyst control center to see how it worked. Does the display settings in system settings mainly apply to the xorg drivers?

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