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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network-manager does not contain the package to setup a PPTP vpn environment, from a terminal window or Synaptic install the following package

network-manager-pptp

terminal cmd:  sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp

Once the package is installed do the following:

Note: Do not enter the domain you are connecting to, in the username field, enter it like the following domain\username

network-manager does not contain any options to refuse eap, this will need to be done via the command line or gconf-editor

I have provided both options below as chrunchbang linux EEE PC release, does not contain networking in gconf-editor.

1. open up a terminal window, type is sudo gconf-editor expand  system expand networking expand Connections expand either folder, 1,2,3,4 then VPN folder 3 contained my vpn connection settings.

2. right click, create a new key

3. Name: refuse-eap -> Type: String -> Value: Yes

if Networking folder is available in gconf you should now be able to connect to the PPTP VPN without any troubles.

However, if the folder in gconf is not there, please follow the steps below.

1. Open a terminal window.
2. cd ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/
3. ls -la

output : 1 2 3 4 5 6 %gconf.xml

The folder above represent different connections, you will need to find the connection with the VPN folder, mine is 3, so I would enter the following.

cd 3/vpn/

4. check the  full current working director, mine is /home/username/.gconf/system/networking/connections/3/vpn this can be found by issuing the command pwd
5.  issue the command: nano %gconf.xml
6. The XML file contains specific values for the VPN connection, add the refuse-eap option in bold below and save the file, more information on using nano can be found on google.com

<!–[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-TW X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]–><!–[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]–>

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<gconf>
<entry name=”require-mppe” mtime=”1238198504″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>yes</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name=”refuse-eap” mtime=”1238198504″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>yes</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name=”user” mtime=”1238198504″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>intabill\shayne</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name=”gateway” mtime=”1238198504″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>220.157.75.66</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name=”service-type” mtime=”1238198504″ type=”string”>
<stringvalue>org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp</stringvalue>
</entry>
</gconf>

7. restart networking, command: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Reconnect to your Local Area Network / Mobile broadband and you should now be able to connect to your VPN

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