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meijuh

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Registered: 2013-03-21

Posts: 20

ati open source driver dual head problem

I have an AMD FirePro M5950 video card in my laptop. Using the open source ATI driver I can't seem to get my dual monitor setup working and GDM won't even start. However KDM is working.
Still, the problem I am having with KDM can be viewed in the following image.

The display somehow starts a little left from the middle of the screen. When I continue moving the mouse to the right the mouse appears on the left part of the screen.

How can this weird offset be fixed? Do some log files help, which one?

meijuh

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Registered: 2013-03-21

Posts: 20

Re: ati open source driver dual head problem

Anyone know how to fix this problem with the open source drivers?

hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

Re: ati open source driver dual head problem

append "nomodeset" in the bootloader, before booting, maybe that will fix the issue.