xorg, is just a front package for 3 different ati drivers, and from those 3 drivers I was using the radeon driver. From the docs in that package I was able to locate a page on the debian wiki about the radeon driver. It also deals with the randr util.
Checking through my xorg.log file, I did see that the driver did in fact detect my 2 monitors, I just needed t... y setup is working great with the open source ati drivers, and I also got compiz to work fully. Now I just
