I tried hardy and with the radeon driver, I am able to get the VGA and DVI both working perfectly. attaching the xorg.conf . this bug can be closed.
~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core | grep ii ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9 Xorg X server - core server ~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-ati | grep ii ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver ~/XTEST > xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024 VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9 1152x864 75.0 74.8 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9 1152x864 75.0 74.8 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 LVDS connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1280x1024 59.9 1280x800 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1024x768 60.0 59.9 800x600 60.3 59.9 640x480 59.9 59.4 S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) I could enable the xinerama like setup with: xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of VGA-0 ** Attachment added: "working xorg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14514964/xorg.conf -- Can not use external VGA display (T43 + ATI + VGA) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152021 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs