{"id":472,"date":"2009-07-05T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/index.php\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-07-05T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:21:39","slug":"dual-monitor-on-ubuntu-904-on-acer-x1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/dual-monitor-on-ubuntu-904-on-acer-x1700\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual monitor on Ubuntu 9.04 on Acer X1700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dual monitor (HDMI and DVI, two LG22W) on Acer X1700 seems to be a problem with the open source drivers.<\/p>\n<p>To get them working (extended desktop, not mirror) just follow the guide:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal\">\n<li>Run the following commands:\n<div style=\"margin: 5px 20px 20px\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 2px\" class=\"smallfont\">Code:<\/div>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 82px; text-align: left\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"alt2\">wget --no-check-certificate https:\/\/www2.ati.com\/drivers\/linux\/ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run\r\nchmod 755 ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run\r\nsudo .\/ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run --buildandinstallpkg Ubuntu\/9.04\r\nsudo aticonfig --initial -f<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the system<\/li>\n<li>Use System > Preferences > Display to detach the monitors from each other, and set the proper resolution<\/li>\n<li>Log out, and back into the system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showpost.php?p=7404825&#038;postcount=46\"> Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dual monitor (HDMI and DVI, two LG22W) on Acer X1700 seems to be a problem with the open source drivers. To get them working (extended desktop, not mirror) just follow the guide: Run the following commands: Code: wget &#8211;no-check-certificate https:\/\/www2.ati.com\/drivers\/linux\/ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/dual-monitor-on-ubuntu-904-on-acer-x1700\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}