[GRLUG] Notebook with ATI chip, dual-screens, XGL?

[Tim Schmidt]

On 12/14/06, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a new HP notebook I just received through work (Compaq
> nc8430), and it's *almost* working the way I want it to.  Using Ubuntu
> 6.10 as the distro.  I have have the main LCD display running at
> 1680x1050 using the fglrx driver from ATI, and I have a second monitor
> attached to the VGA port running at 1280x1024 for a nice dual-screen
> setup.  No problem there.
>
> Last night, I got XGL working (can't use AIGLX with ATI) on the notebook
> display.  Excellent.  Today, I decided to try and get XGL working across
> the dual displays, but so far, I haven't had any luck.  There isn't much
> out there on Google for ATI chips, although there are plenty of people
> who have it working with NVidia.

XGL doesn't support dual monitors.

--tim