Public bug reported:

After installing the latest ati proprietary driver (8.9) under Ubuntu
Hardy, I faced several difficulties to properly configure 2 displays
(laptop + external EIZO FlexScan S2031W). After reading xrandr related
webpages [1] [2] [3] I concluded that the best way is to erase my
current xorg.conf file and build it from the scratch.

Finally I managed to get (almost) what I wanted using xrandr. I have a
Big Desktop which spans vertically along the 2 displays. All dynamic
xrandr commands (like turning on/off a display) as well as screen
rotation (I mean orientation) work perfectly. Even compiz works fine
(some known video flickering issues are still present).


Issues:

(a) One thing that (according to [3], section VI.6) is missing from
xrandr is the support for 2 independent "Screens", one for each display.

(b) The real problem is some display distortion within and around the
mouse pointer only while moving it along specific virtual "columns" (or
name them vertical stripes!?) in both displays. It gives the impression
that it is a systematical error that appears in equally distanced (?)
vertical stripes.

(c) In addition, the external display when rotated is too slow for just
2D rendering (like scrolling a webpage or the text in a word processing
software). I have set the Virtual in xorg.conf size to match the sum of
the required maximum resolution(s) supported by the two monitors (width:
1680 x height: 800+1050). I read in ati X1250's specifications [4]
(under the section 2D Acceleration Features): Supports a maximum
resolution of 2048x1536 @ 32bpp (driver-limited).


Questions:

For (a): Any information if this planend to be fixed soon?

For (b): Can this be explained/fixed?

Sort of a question for (c): I suppose this really means that the X1250
graphic card cannot achiece 2D acceleration over "1536" height-pixels
(?) :-(


My current xorg.conf is attached. The command "xrandr -q" reports:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1850, maximum 1680 x 1850
LCD connected 1280x800+0+1050 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 400mm 
x 300mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1280x768       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.0  
   640x480        60.0  
   640x400        60.0  
   512x384        60.0  
   400x300        60.0  
   320x240        60.0  
   320x200        60.0  
CRT1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 434mm x 
271mm
   1680x1050      60.0*+
   1400x1050      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     70.0     60.0     43.0  
   1440x900       59.9  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1280x800       60.0  
   1152x864       85.0     75.0     70.0     60.0     43.0  
   1280x768       59.9  
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     72.0     70.1     60.0     43.5  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     70.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     75.0     72.8     60.0  
   640x400        75.1     59.9  
   512x384        60.0     74.9  
   400x300        75.0     60.7  
   320x240        75.6     60.0  
   320x200        75.5     60.1 


Sources:

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
[2] http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
[4] http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonxpress1250mob/specs.html

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Display distortion and other issues when using 2 monitors with ati X1250, ati 
proprietary driver 8.9, xrandr 1.2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273071
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