External Full HD monitor and Virtual Desktop Size

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Published on 2012-03-08T21:22:39Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 17:14 UTC
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I have two FullHD monitors attached to my ATI graphics card [2]. The resolution of both of them is detected properly without any modifications to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I can run both of them in clone mode. However, when I try to run them next to each other, I got the following error: The selected configuration for displays could not be applied. If tried to fix this according to [1]. My xorg.conf now looks like this:

Section "Module"                                                                
        Load    "glx"                                                           
EndSection                                                                      

Section "Screen"                                                                
        Identifier      "Default Screen"                                        
        DefaultDepth    24                                                      
        SubSection "Display"   
              # The 1088 is the smallest multiple of 32 >= 1088
              # see manpages                                               
              Virtual 1920 1088                                               
        EndSubSection                                                         
EndSection 

This does not seem to be parsed properly. After restarting X, I cannot set resolutions beyond 1600 or so any more. /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives:

[    15.676] (II) fglrx(0): Not using mode "1920x1080" (width too large for virtual size)
[    15.676] (II) fglrx(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (width too large for virtual size)

Are my modifications syntactically incorrect? According to the man page, it should be fine. Any ideas?

OS: Ubuntu 11.10 64bit

[1] http://askubuntu.com/a/75546/5023
[2] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series]

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