External Monitor screen flicker fixed

I had a problem with my 3rd party external mornitor that kept flickering. It happened all of a sudden and was a constant flicker that was really annoying. Anyways, I discovered that when the mini-dvi connector is near my speakers(which are unshielded of course) It causes the screen to flicker. All I needed to do was move my mini-dvi connector away from the speakers(at least a foot away) and had no more issues. It was awesome when I made this discovery because I was paranoid it may be an issue with the mbp graphics card.

System Preferences > Displays
Select the "Arrangement" tab.
Drag the external monitor to the position you'd like it to be relative to the computer's own display.

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    #    Option "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    #    Option "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    #    Option "XkbLayout"   "us"
    #    Option "XkbVariant"  ""
    #    Option "XkbOptions"  ""
    #    Option "XkbDisable"
        Identifier  "Keyboard1"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option        "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
        Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option        "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
    # Identifier and driver
    # the following line.
    #    Option "Protocol"    "Xqueue"
    # Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.
    #    Option "Resolution"    "256"
    # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
    # almost every case these lines should be omitted.
    #    Option "BaudRate"    "9600"
    #    Option "SampleRate"    "150"
    # Mouse wheel mapping.  Default is to map vertical wheel to buttons 4 & 5,
    # horizontal wheel to buttons 6 & 7.   Change if your mouse has more than
    # 3 buttons and you need to map the wheel to different button ids to avoid
    # conflicts.
    # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
    #    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
    #    Option "Emulate3Timeout"    "50"
    # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
    #    Option "ChordMiddle"
        Identifier  "Mouse1"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option        "Protocol" "Auto"    # Auto detect
        Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
        Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button mice
    EndSection
    Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
    # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
    # comma separated list of ranges of values.
    # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
    # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
    #    HorizSync    30-64         # multisync
    #    HorizSync    31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
    #    HorizSync    15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
    # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
    # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
    # comma separated list of ranges of values.
    # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
    # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
        Identifier   "My Monitor"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 62.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
    EndSection
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option        "DPMS" "true"
    EndSection
    Section "Device"
    # The chipset line is optional in most cases.  It can be used to override
    # the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
    #    Chipset    "generic"
    # The Driver line must be present.  When using run-time loadable driver
    # modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
    # module.  Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
    # indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
    # The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
    # this section is intended for.  When this line isn't present, a device
    # section can only match up with the primary video device.  For PCI
    # devices a line like the following could be used.  This line should not
    # normally be included unless there is more than one video device
    # intalled.
    #    BusID      "PCI:0:10:0"
    #    VideoRam    256
    #    Clocks    25.2 28.3
        Identifier  "Standard VGA"
        Driver      "vga"
        VendorName  "Unknown"
        BoardName   "Unknown"
    EndSection
    Section "Device"
        #VideoRam    131072
        # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
        Identifier  "* Generic VESA compatible"
        Driver      "vesa"
    EndSection
    Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
    EndSection
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen 1"
        Device     "* Generic VESA compatible"
        Monitor    "My Monitor"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
            Viewport   0 0
            Depth     8
            Modes    "1280x800" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Viewport   0 0
            Depth     16
            Modes    "1280x800" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Viewport   0 0
            Depth     24
            Modes    "1280x800" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
            Viewport   0 0
            Depth     24
        EndSubSection
    EndSection
    Ubuntu xorg.conf
    # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
    # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
    # values from the debconf database.
    # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
    # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
    # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
    # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
    # package.
    # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
    # again, run the following command:
    #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
    Section "Files"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    EndSection
    Section "Module"
        Load    "i2c"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "vbe"
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver        "kbd"
        Option        "CoreKeyboard"
        Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
        Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
        Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
        Driver        "mouse"
        Option        "CorePointer"
        Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option        "Protocol"        "ImPS/2"
        Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
        Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver        "synaptics"
        Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
        Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option        "Protocol"        "auto-dev"
        Option        "HorizScrollDelta"    "0"
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Driver        "wacom"
        Identifier    "stylus"
        Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option        "Type"        "stylus"
        Option        "ForceDevice"    "ISDV4"        # Tablet PC ONLY
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Driver        "wacom"
        Identifier    "eraser"
        Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option        "Type"        "eraser"
        Option        "ForceDevice"    "ISDV4"        # Tablet PC ONLY
    EndSection
    Section "InputDevice"
        Driver        "wacom"
        Identifier    "cursor"
        Option        "Device"    "/dev/input/wacom"
        Option        "Type"        "cursor"
        Option        "ForceDevice"    "ISDV4"        # Tablet PC ONLY
    EndSection
    Section "Device"
        Identifier    "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
        Driver        "ati"
        BusID        "PCI:1:5:0"
    EndSection
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
        Option        "DPMS"
    EndSection
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier    "Default Screen"
        Device        "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
        Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        1
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        4
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        8
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        15
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        16
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth        24
            Modes        "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier    "Default Layout"
        Screen        "Default Screen"
        InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice     "stylus"    "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice     "cursor"    "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice     "eraser"    "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
    EndSection
    Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
    EndSection

    Xrandr 1.2 provides means for this. But today the only supported configuration is xorg-server-1.3 + xf86-video-intel-2.0. So for Radeon you'll have to wait for drivers that support Randr 1.2.
    On my laptop (Thinkpad x60s) that would be:
    xrandr --output VGA --auto
    xrandr --output LVDS --off

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