bubblesnout
August 30th, 2008, 04:37 PM
Hey guys, first post!
I have to admit, this is my first installation of any Linux version. Rather impressed so far... But I'm a bit of a newb with a few things. I'm comfortable running Terminal commands and what not, but if you have any suggestions, please dumb it down a bit so I can understand :)
I'm running Hardy Heron 8.04. My video card is a ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. I have 2 displays attached and I've gotten them running by enabling the ATI Accelerated Graphics Driver in the driver system settings (so I'm guessing this is the official one from ATI themselves). I've installed Catalyst Control Center to configure the displays, and I have Big Desktop working. Just have a couple of questions.
I've read everywhere that settings like this are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, yet there aren't any display settings from my setup stored in there (resolution, different displays, etc). Earlier I tried making changes to thie file manually and they didn't appear to be carried across. I ran a sudo aticonfig --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf, yet the settings still aren't appearing in there.
Anyway, my main query is this: is it possible to set rotation on one of my displays? I have a setup like so:
A 27 inch screen at 1920x1200, and a 20 inch display to the left at 1680x1050, but rotated around so it's vertical: like a page (this way it actually fits on my desk!). I was able to do this with the ATI drivers in windows, so I'd like to be able to do it here too! I've read a instructable on how to do it with the open source ATI drivers, but I've also read that their performance is nowhere near that of the official ones, so I'd rather not have to go down that path as I may be doing a bit of graphically intense stuff.
Any guidance would be great, thanks! I hope for a long stay here :)
I have to admit, this is my first installation of any Linux version. Rather impressed so far... But I'm a bit of a newb with a few things. I'm comfortable running Terminal commands and what not, but if you have any suggestions, please dumb it down a bit so I can understand :)
I'm running Hardy Heron 8.04. My video card is a ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. I have 2 displays attached and I've gotten them running by enabling the ATI Accelerated Graphics Driver in the driver system settings (so I'm guessing this is the official one from ATI themselves). I've installed Catalyst Control Center to configure the displays, and I have Big Desktop working. Just have a couple of questions.
I've read everywhere that settings like this are stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, yet there aren't any display settings from my setup stored in there (resolution, different displays, etc). Earlier I tried making changes to thie file manually and they didn't appear to be carried across. I ran a sudo aticonfig --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf, yet the settings still aren't appearing in there.
Anyway, my main query is this: is it possible to set rotation on one of my displays? I have a setup like so:
A 27 inch screen at 1920x1200, and a 20 inch display to the left at 1680x1050, but rotated around so it's vertical: like a page (this way it actually fits on my desk!). I was able to do this with the ATI drivers in windows, so I'd like to be able to do it here too! I've read a instructable on how to do it with the open source ATI drivers, but I've also read that their performance is nowhere near that of the official ones, so I'd rather not have to go down that path as I may be doing a bit of graphically intense stuff.
Any guidance would be great, thanks! I hope for a long stay here :)