I tried hardy and with the radeon driver, I am able to get the VGA and DVI both working perfectly. attaching the xorg.conf . this bug can be closed.
~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core | grep ii
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9 Xorg X server - core server
~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-ati | grep ii
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
~/XTEST > xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.8
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.8
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
LVDS connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1280x1024 59.9
1280x800 60.0
1280x768 60.0
1024x768 60.0 59.9
800x600 60.3 59.9
640x480 59.9 59.4
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
I tried hardy and with the radeon driver, I am able to get the VGA and DVI both working perfectly. attaching the xorg.conf . this bug can be closed.
~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core | grep ii git20080131- 1ubuntu9 Xorg X server - core server xorg-video- ati | grep ii xorg-video- ati 1:6.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~
~/XTEST > dpkg -l xserver-
ii xserver-
~/XTEST > xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.8
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 76.0 75.0 71.9 69.8 59.9
1152x864 75.0 74.8
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
LVDS connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1280x1024 59.9
1280x800 60.0
1280x768 60.0
1024x768 60.0 59.9
800x600 60.3 59.9
640x480 59.9 59.4
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
I could enable the xinerama like setup with:
xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of VGA-0