ATI Driver and dual displays

[Terry Sposato]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 07:44 -0500, manchicken wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007 02:17:15 Terry Sposato wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an ASUS M6R with an ATI mobility radeon 9100igp chipset, I am
> > using a default kubuntu setup where my current display runs fine. I am
> > trying to plug my laptop into my T.V which has a VGA input, nothing
> > comes up and I am not sure how to go about it.
> >
> > If someone has succeeded where I have failed or knows of a how-to etc.
> > could they please shed some light on this for me. I am relatively knew
> > to Linux and the X desktop so anything that might help would be great.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terry
> 
> This may require you to use the non-free ATI drivers.  I found that my laptop 
> with an ATI Radeon xpress200m wouldn't work with its external port either.  
> This is a very annoying problem, but I can't think of very many things about 
> this ATI card--I don't know about yours--that aren't annoying.
> 
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I see, I checked the ATI website but in the last round of driver updated
they did my current driver was not included. The latest driver from
their website for my card fails when I try to run the installer package
so I'm not sure what else to do.
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