Budget grapich card, Open Source

[Aradreth]

Why? If another driver can create 2 independent screens, then it means it's not shared, right?

Shared = same screen on both outputs

The HD3300 graphics chip can only support two monitors the reason that you have three connectors on the back of your motherboard is so they don't have to supply a DVI->VGA adaptor. So your chip looks like:

 ________
|   H    |      ________DVI
|   D    |-----|
|   3    |     '--------VGA
|   3    |
|   0    |
|   0    |--------------Display port
|________|

The DVI and VGA are connected to the same "port" on the chip and so can only display the same image. Hope that helps.

Edit: you need to get an adaptor like http://www.pcsuppliers.co.uk/INU_Pro...P?ref=M852A116 and then use display port + dvi/vga to get the two monitor setup working.

[MartjeB]

Ah, OK, that's clear! Thank you

[bugmenot]

If it doesn't work, file a bug report.
I'm sure, the devs will look at it and will fix it, if it's a bug in the driver.

[MartjeB]

After a update today in Jaunty Jackalope (you know, the development version of Ubuntu) my xrandr shows:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1600
VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1280x1024      60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0     43.5  
   832x624        74.6     75.0  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     75.0     72.8     75.0     66.7     59.9  
   720x400        87.8     70.1  
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 433mm x 271mm
   1680x1050      59.9*+
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     59.9  
   720x400        70.1  
None connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1360x768       59.8  
   1152x864       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9

I can only say one thing: wohoo!