Squint

This has been one of those days where all I've done is stare at monitors too closely.

I know, I'm a sysadmin, what do I expect? But some days I get up, move around; I'm sedentary (and introverted) by nature but I try to talk to people, stare off into the distance, get away from my desk. Going to the server room is always a good break.

Not today, though. My carefully-chosen ATI video card (the Radeon 4550) is giving me headaches, metaphorical and real:

• the proprietary fglrx drivers work if you want a cloned display, but enabling Xinerama makes X segfault
• or, interestingly, the fglrx driver will show the desktop on one monitor, and an "uninitialized" (X checker pattern, chunky X cursor) screen on the other
• the radeonhd drivers work perfectly for VGA out, but the DVI out is flickery and "noisy"

Dual monitors is important. My own damn fault for not getting something old enough...