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I been running Ubuntu 12.04 since alpha with the ATI open source drivers and with Gnome-Shell. I been generally very happy with them with only small issues along the way. Now of course it does not support 3D acceleration 100%, so games Amnesia would not play. The ATI driver is in the repos. How I use my computer:

  • It's laptop, with a HD 3670 card in it.
  • I spend about 50% of the time working directly on the laptop (at home) and about 50% of the time working with an additional display connected (at work), multi desktop environment.

What happening now:

  • installed drivers
  • things seemed to working, save some small other bugs (not critical)
  • this morning I take my machine and plug the additional monitor into it, and nothing happens... ok fine.
  • open "displays" try configure dual display, won't work
  • open ati config "thing" (cause it is a thing, a crap thing) and set-up monitors there
  • reboot it says (oh ffs, really.... ok)
  • reboot, login and wow, I got a gnome 2 desktop (presume gnome 3 fall back) and no multi-monitor...great. (screenshot: http://ubuntuone.com/5tFe3QNFsTSIGvUSVLsyL7 )
  • after getting into a situation where I had to Ctrl + Alt + Del to get out of a frozen display, I eventually manage to set-up a single display desktop on the "main" monitor
  • ok.. time to go home... unplug monitor... nothing happens.. oh boy here we go...
  • try displays again, nothing, just hangs the display.. great. crash all the apps and reboot...

So it's been a trying day...

Please help with a solution that:

  • allows me run fglrx (so I can run the games I want)
  • allows me to hot-plug a monitor to my laptop and remove it again
  • allows me to change the display so include the hot-plugged monitor (preferable automatically like it did with the open drivers)

Next best if that's not possible:

  • Switch between laptop only display and monitor only display easily (not having to reboot, logout, suspened, etc...)
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  • I'm in a world of pain here, locked displays or worse, hard locked system on display changes... please help.
    – Brendan
    Jun 13, 2012 at 15:17
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    – guntbert
    Jul 18, 2013 at 11:21
  • I am on 12.04 with hp envy / ati graphics and unplugging monitor does not 'reset' configuration. :( it doesn't crash though..
    – aikeru
    Nov 1, 2013 at 13:11
  • I ended up back on open drivers. They work as expected but the downside is no advanced graphics gaming :(
    – Brendan
    Nov 2, 2013 at 5:22
  • How do I report a bug
    – blade19899
    May 8, 2014 at 18:07

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