Running dual screens within linux is awesome! Setup with Deal Head = Two seperate desktops across multiple monitors.

Note: Before starting this, please disable your current proprietary drivers (if in use) from ‘Hardware Drivers’ in the system menu

Card = ATI Radeon

Drivers = ati-driver-installer-9-4-x86.x86_64.run download from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML

Once download, open a terminal alt+F2 type in gnome-terminal

cd to the location downloaded, firefox default is the desktop.

cd ~/Desktop
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-4-x86.x86_64.run

This will run you through the setup, follow the prompts on the screen.

Here is the trick to get dual x sessions working correctly from the command line with little fuss.

sudo aticonfig –initial=dual-head –screen-layout=right

Change -screen-layout=right to the position of your second screen. e.g -screen-layout=left

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