I need some help, please. I use an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6370 with proprietary drivers v11.8 in Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit and I can't get it to detect an external monitor through HDMI. Not with the Catalyst software nor with the "Displays" utility. I just want to set up a simple and straight forward clone display configuration to see my laptop output on my HD TV monitor. I can do this without any trouble in Windows 7 (same machine, dual boot) so I know there's nothing wrong with my hardware (laptop, cable or TV monitor).
I'm not sure what is going wrong here, but if it has anything to do with this, I can tell you that I have an xorg.conf file generated by
and it is exactly the following:
So, is there something I should add in there to make Catalyst detect my monitor? Or has it got nothing to do with it?
This is actually driving me insane. I?ve spent a whole day trying to work this around without much success. I did find out, however that if I run
I get the following output
Apparently there are two adapters detected. The information section in the Catalyst GUI confirms this, however, the display manager only lists the 4200 adapter.
I thought I could sort this out with a new xorg.conf file generated by aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all but that only resulted in X server failing to load at startup. I only got it working again by restoring the previous configuration.
All help is appreciated.
I'm not sure what is going wrong here, but if it has anything to do with this, I can tell you that I have an xorg.conf file generated by
Code:
sudo aticonfig -f --initial
Code:
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 "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
This is actually driving me insane. I?ve spent a whole day trying to work this around without much success. I did find out, however that if I run
Code:
aticonfig --lsa
Code:
* 0. 01:05.0 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series 1. 02:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6300M Series
I thought I could sort this out with a new xorg.conf file generated by aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all but that only resulted in X server failing to load at startup. I only got it working again by restoring the previous configuration.
All help is appreciated.
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