[olug] Dual Monitors in F16

Abraham abrahams at teknohazard.com
Fri Dec 2 23:07:27 UTC 2011


I remember ATI coming out with an official statement that they weren't
going to provide driver downloads for Linux, but it made enough people
angry that they changed their tune pretty quickly. That was about a
year ago.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Serafino <lzrblade at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ATI has a little bit of a bad reputation when it comes to driver support...
>
> Much of that reputation is based on historical anecdotes, and doesn't
> apply to modern ATI/AMD hardware and drivers.  Before I ditched the
> desktop with multiple monitors (moved to almost exclusive laptop use
> at home), I was running Ubuntu with an ATI card, and it was as close
> to being plug-and-play as setting up dual monitors in Windows.
>
>> --
>> John
>
> --
> Christopher
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