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New video card arrived today, an ATI Radeon HD 3650 with two DVI ports, but it's been quite a bit of trouble getting a fluid dual monitor setup working. I think most of the issues are related to my use of two different monitors, one a standard LCD capable of 1600x1200 and the other a widescreen LCD capable of 1680x1050.

Out of the box I think mirroring worked at a common resolution as is expected, but gnome-display-properties wouldn't do much for me without an xorg.conf in place so I had to generate one and then hack it up a bit. At some point this afternoon I had both displays in their native resolution, though on the "shorter" of the two the mouse would technically go off screen above or below (depending on how I had them arranged in gnome-display-properties), although the gnome panels displayed in the correct location. (which wasn't bad)