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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:34 PM

I've upgrade to a new monitor. My two Linux systems (RH9 and FC4) are
using the same monitor via a KVM switch. Now I want to reconfigure the
display settings for both. I'm doing it from the console because I
boot into init 3 for both machines. I thought the display
configuration command was Xconfigurator but its nt found on either
machine. What is the command for both FC4 and RH9 to configure the
display from the console?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

"d" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've upgrade to a new monitor. My two Linux systems (RH9 and FC4) are
> using the same monitor via a KVM switch. Now I want to reconfigure the
> display settings for both. I'm doing it from the console because I
> boot into init 3 for both machines. I thought the display
> configuration command was Xconfigurator but its nt found on either
> machine. What is the command for both FC4 and RH9 to configure the
> display from the console?

That's changed. You want "system-config-display" for FC4, but I think you
want "redhat-config-display" for RH9.

Why are you still running RH9? It's deprecated and no longer supported by
RedHat.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

I booted with my FC4 installation CD to try and update the system in
graphic mode but even the installation program was unable to find the
mouse. Maybe I have a dead COM port. This is an old machine (P233).
I just wanted to put it into some use. FC4 runs fine in server mode
but I wanted to see how it would run in X mode on this box. But with
no mouse it useless.

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

I was looking for something more in line with the old Xconfigurator
utility. Looks to have been last released on RH7.3. When I'm in my
console (text-mode), on my RH9 machine and type in
redhat-config-display it executes in a sudo graphical mode which allows
me to change the display values. However, on my FC4 machine there is
no system-config-display command because I have yet to install X. This
machine was configured as a server only machine but I now I want to try
X on it. So I'll install X to see what I get. After further
inspection of the machine I noticed there was actually a PS/2 port on
the back (which I never noticed before), that does work and with my KVM
switch. I now have a functioning mouse.

#5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

"system-config-display --noui " should work for you....

d wrote:
> I was looking for something more in line with the old Xconfigurator
> utility. Looks to have been last released on RH7.3. When I'm in my
> console (text-mode), on my RH9 machine and type in
> redhat-config-display it executes in a sudo graphical mode which allows
> me to change the display values. However, on my FC4 machine there is
> no system-config-display command because I have yet to install X. This
> machine was configured as a server only machine but I now I want to try
> X on it. So I'll install X to see what I get. After further
> inspection of the machine I noticed there was actually a PS/2 port on
> the back (which I never noticed before), that does work and with my KVM
> switch. I now have a functioning mouse.
>

#6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

After much pain and heartache, I got this thing to work. Trying evey
suggestion and then some. Came down to fixing some problems in the
xorg.conf file for the mouse, FONTPATH, and keyboard values. Then I was
able to execute system-config-display and configure the video card and
monitor. I still don't understand onething, what's up with the font
server (xfs). I can't get it to run but it doesn't affect X. I can
run startx and enter my desktop and see no problems with GNOME. I
tried stopping gpm and then starting xfs but that didn't work either.
Is xfs now OBE in FC4?

#7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

Broken link to the directory /etc/X11/fs that points to the xfs config
file. Repaired softlink and the xfs server started up. Whewww!!!

#8 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:35 PM

"d" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Broken link to the directory /etc/X11/fs that points to the xfs config
> file. Repaired softlink and the xfs server started up. Whewww!!!

How did all these fractures happen?

#9 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:36 PM

Well it might be partly my fault. The rpm for the font server files,
installs the config file in /etc/X11/fs. There is a softlink from
within /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts (?) that points to the /etc/X11/fs
directory. That's where the service apparently is trying to source the
config file. Since my softlink was broken because I've moved /etc and
/usr to a bigger disk I thinks I broke the softlink which originally
looked something like ( ../../../../etc/X11/fs ). So I just changed it
to say ( /etc/X11/fs ) which fixed the problem.

#10 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 04:36 PM

"d" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1138205665.184539.253640@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Well it might be partly my fault. The rpm for the font server files,
> installs the config file in /etc/X11/fs. There is a softlink from
> within /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts (?) that points to the /etc/X11/fs
> directory. That's where the service apparently is trying to source the
> config file. Since my softlink was broken because I've moved /etc and
> /usr to a bigger disk I thinks I broke the softlink which originally
> looked something like ( ../../../../etc/X11/fs ). So I just changed it
> to say ( /etc/X11/fs ) which fixed the problem.

What did you *DO* to /etc and /usr? They're sometimes their own partitions,
but you're symlinking those elsewhere by surprise, you may be in for a world
of hurt.

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