Dual monitors on Radeon 5770 with fc15

[Alex]

Hi,

>> - Has AMD bought ATI? It seems there are several references to drivers
>> available for download from AMD.
>
> Forgot to mention that the driver from RPMFusion is exactly the same
> as the one available for download from AMD/ATI, just packaged such
> that installation on Fedora is painless.  Trying to use the stock ATI
> driver is much more difficult to get going.

Yes, that's exactly why I was trying to get the RPMFusion stuff going.

I've now got it going, and have a basic ATI driver running now, rather
than the 640x480 I had previously.

After experiencing GNOME3 for the last few minutes, I can definitely
say it's "form over function" in this release. I'm already regretting
upgrading. The lack of function, specifically the video support, is
frustrating.

Trying to run the livna config program fails:

Aug 16 15:46:57 sage livnaConfigClient.py: abrt: detected unhandled
Python exception in
/usr/share/livna-config-display/livnaConfigClient.py
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrtd: Unrecognized variable 'DumpLocation' in
'/etc/abrt/abrt.conf'
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrtd: New client connected
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrt-server[4251]: Saved Python crash dump of pid
4246 to /var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2011-08-16-15:46:57-4246
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrtd: Directory
'pyhook-2011-08-16-15:46:57-4246' creation detected
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrt-server[4251]: Unrecognized variable
'DumpLocation' in '/etc/abrt/abrt.conf'
Aug 16 15:46:57 sage abrtd: Corrupted or bad dump
/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2011-08-16-15:46:57-4246 (res:2), deleting

Is there another way, besides hacking the xorg.conf like it's 1998
again, to configure resolution and dual monitors?

Also, what the hell happened to the minimize button on each window?

Is there any way to fix the screen corruption without switching from
GNOME to another DE?

I figured since it was released in May, and now it's August, they
would have worked out the basic usability issues, but this is
definitely the release to skip.

Ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex