On 26 May, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote: > I'm at a loss. I guess I'll try a reboot and see if kudzu notices the > hardware change. I must admit to feeling sympathetic with people who > complain that finding out basic info can be hard. The KDE help was > useless, too, as were the man pages (they suggested Xconfigurator).
Nope. kudzu didn't detect the new hardware. I tried running a Gnome session, but none of its system config stuff knew about configuring the monitor. I had a look at www.xfree86.org, and their information seemed very wrong. They suggested: > 2. After the installation is complete > > The next step is to configure the X server. That is covered > in detail in an as-yet unwritten document :-(. In the > meantime, there are three ways to create a basic X server > configuration file for XFree86 4.2.0. One is to run the > xf86config utility. Another is to run the xf86cfg utility. The > third option is to use the new -configure X server option: > > XFree86 -configure The last suggestion only applies to X 4.2 (I'm running 4.1 or whatever comes with RH7.2). There is no executable called xf86cfg, so that suggestion completely wrong. And xf86config is that ghastly thing which is little better than writing the config file yourself, since it asks you to tell it the config info for everything, instead of probing the system for the information. I wish I knew what RH uses during installation - that does a very good job of it. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
