How can I switch between fglrx and ati drivers?

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Published on 2011-02-12T13:56:48Z Indexed on 2011/02/12 23:33 UTC
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Hi there, How can I switch between fglrx and ati (open source) drivers without uninstalling fglrx? The thing is I'm using FGLRX on a daily basis, because it's better for movies--OS driver displays annoying horizontal line while playing movies. FGLRX also does this, but it's less visible. That's only disadvantage of OS driver.

When I want to plug in external monitor with different resolution than my laptop's LCD I have to use open source driver, because FGLRX can't display two different resolutions at the same time.

I can uninstall FGLRX, but it's rather inconvenient to do this all the time. I've noticed that when I'm using FGLRX there is xorg.conf file and when I uninstall it, then the file is missing.

So my question is how to switch between them? It'll be perfect if I could do this without restarting my computer either.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, laptop/netbook MSI U250.

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