12.04.1 screwed me ... anyone else?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 12:37 PM, Mikie wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Amichai, Avi, Steve, J,
>>
>> I will inspect the FGLRX DMESG entries and post.
>>
>> Is it better (more typically done) to not use FGLRX but use the default
>> driver?
>>
>> I have dual monitors and could not get it to spread the desktop until I
>> did this.
>
>
> Right, you have to use the AMD driver in order to use your chipset to the
> fullest. Then, you have to use their factory supplied setup program to
> administer the driver, not the usual desktop monitor config.
>
I went through a problem like this a few months back.

My solution was to get an nVidia video card.  They don't have these
problems, in part because nVidia actually supports Linux (AMD/ATI do
in a half-hearted, haphazard way) and they are highly responsive to
problem reports.

MR