AMD Graphic Issues

[maddtechwf]

I'm very new to Linux and just installed Mint 14 last night. I have to say, I'm falling in love with it so far.

I have a dual monitor setup that I would like to use on my Mint box but I can't quite seem to get it to work. After installing the OS, I went to Display and turned Mirroring off and set the screen sizes that I wanted. After hitting Apply, my screens were all messed up. It appears that it's not using the correct NVidea graphics driver. Can anyone help me install this correctly so that I can use my dual monitors.

[zerozero]

please share with us the output of

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inxi -Sr

i can't find that card not even at nvidia's http://www.geforce.com/hardware what means (usually) problems for you it must a very new, state of the art card and with just rudimentary support so far

furthermore tyou should (most certainly) have a dual gpu setup what makes it even worst (but not impossible i think)

[maddtechwf]

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System:    Host: mint-desktop Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main upstream import
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ quantal partner
           deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ quantal free non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java-quantal.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu quantal main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu quantal main



[zerozero]

sorry wasn't this output that we needed (my mistake)
it's the one related with your graphics card(s)

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inxi -Gx

(now is correct)

[maddtechwf]

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x800@74.9hz, 1280x800@74.9hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV370 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes


Looks like I installed the wrong card. Well I gues I will just use this one instead. Any tips on how to run the latests drivers?

[zerozero]

i'm sorry but i have no experience whatsoever with amd and you should update the subject to reflect the changes.