Weird troubles with system resolution [ati card]

Hi all !
First post here because I'm coming from the french arch community
Straight to the point: I have a new toshiba laptop with ati hd 3650 graphic card running with proprietary drivers. Everything worked fine (Direct rendering ok) until I decided to configure dual screen with aticonfig.
I tried but it didn't work as expected so I decided to go back to my previous Xorg conf. But now I have a kind of weird behaviour. When X starts, it seems to settle as if it was still running dual screen configuration. My mouse cursor is on the right side (desktop center) and when I log on, kde shows wide desktops. Weirder is the fact that when I go to system configuration > display settings, the screen flicks and then everything went back with no wide desktop anymore... Another thing is when I've just logged on, blender run just fine, but once I've been to display settings, it shows horizontal black lines all around and is unusable though.
One more detail: on the display settings, I still can see the 2560x800 resolution setting on top of the list... I suspect kdm to use this one but how ? I don't have any idea
Here is my Xorg.conf
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
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" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DesktopSetup" "single"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
If anyone has any clue on what is happening to my mad X server, I'll be very gratefull
Oh and sorry for my bad english
Last edited by sebby (2008-11-04 20:37:05)

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