Bug#437332: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>> Does it help if you do something like this?
>>   xrandr --addmode VGA-1 800x600
>
> This fails, there is no "--addmode" option (I have xbase-clients
> 1:7.2.ds2-2).

Ok, this option is probably only in xrandr 1.2.2, it is available in the
new x11-xserver-utils package in experimental (xbase-clients is being
split in multiple smaller packages).

Let me know if Alex' MonitorLayout option helps with driver 6.6.193. Did
you have to help fglrx or Windows when you first plugged your monitor?
for instance, did you have to tell them the monitor was actually
plugged? or did they really discover everything automatically? (I am
trying to understand whether the driver could better than requiring you
to add MonitorLayout LCD,CRT.

Brice