Sound and video blurred with ATI dual xinerama

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:10 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:03 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > After installing the ATI driver from the ATI site,
> > ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run, and setting up with xinerama
> > using my dual screens with different resolutions, the sound and video
> > are blurred. The sound is slowed and stretched out and the video
> > hesitant. The only way to get smooth sound and video is to return to
> > single display. Anyone know how I can remedy this in 9.04 or which logs
> > to look for clues?
> 
> you could always do a 'dmesg | tail' after you start both monitors, and
> after starting playing the video, to see if there's any messages there.
> If I'm not mistaken, dmesg displays messages from all the system logs,
> so that should get you any pertinent output.
> 
> If you like GUIS for this sort of thing, you could just open the 'Log
> File Viewer' (System > Administration > Log File Viewer) then watch
> which logs turn bold as you do your tests (the bold-ed logs are the ones
> that changed) then scroll down to the bottom of the log to see what
> changed.

Thanks, that log viewer makes it easy, but nothing bold except auth.log
when I accessed the file from a NFS share. The dmesg didn't output
anything new either :(