I've installed 12.10 with the proprietary Radeon drivers and am spanning a desktop across three monitors:
$ dpkg -l fg*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================-=============-=============-======================================
ii fglrx 2:9.000-0ubun amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics acce
ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:9.000-0ubun amd64 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD gr
un fglrx-amdcccle-u <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-control <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-control-qt <none> (no description available)
ii fglrx-dev 2:9.000-0ubun amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics acce
un fglrx-driver <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-driver-dev <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-glx <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-kernel-sou <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-modaliases <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-updates <none> (no description available)
un fglrx-updates-de <none> (no description available)
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "3840 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP4"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "1920 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP3"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
Option "Monitor-DFP4" "0-DFP4"
Option "Monitor-DFP3" "0-DFP3"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[2]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP4" "0-DFP4"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 5760 1920
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[2]-1"
Device "amdcccle-Device[2]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Everything works reasonably well, but animations (window maximize/minimize/close/etc) are very slow to the point of making the UI painful to use. What settings should I tweak to fix this?
Thanks!
