I have a DVI + HDMI dual monitor setup with an AMD Radeon R9 380. I can't use both monitors at max resolution though. One monitor can be at max resolution and the other must be something different. If I set them to the same resolution, one of the screens is blank but still seems to be receiving a signal because it doesn't turn off.
Here is the output from lshw -c video
crawforc3@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: f1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:128 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff memory:f7e40000-f7e5ffff
output from xrandr
crawforc3@ubuntu:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3600 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-A-0 connected 1680x1050+1920+30 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 296mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 50.00 59.94 30.00 29.97
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94
1680x1050 59.88*
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1440x576 50.00
1024x768 75.08 70.07 60.00
1440x480 60.00 59.94
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 296mm
1920x1080 60.00 + 50.00 59.94* 30.00 29.97
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94
1680x1050 59.88
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1440x576 50.00
1024x768 75.08 70.07 60.00
1440x480 60.00 59.94
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
And contents of ~/.config/monitors.xml
<monitors version="1">
<configuration>
<clone>no</clone>
<output name="DVI-I-1">
<vendor>ACI</vendor>
<product>ASUS VN248</product>
<serial>ECLMTF168617</serial>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<rate>59.940200805664062</rate>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>yes</primary>
<presentation>no</presentation>
<underscanning>no</underscanning>
</output>
<output name="HDMI-A-0">
<vendor>ACI</vendor>
<product>ASUS VN248</product>
<serial>ECLMTF168622</serial>
<width>1680</width>
<height>1050</height>
<rate>59.883251190185547</rate>
<x>1920</x>
<y>30</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>no</primary>
<presentation>no</presentation>
<underscanning>no</underscanning>
</output>
</configuration>
</monitors>
Best Answer
AMD is not working well with Ubuntu 16.x. Your best bet today unfortunately is to downgrade to 14.04 LTS (still quite a few years of support to go) until your computer dies and then buy one with better hardware acceleration support for Ubuntu.