Description of problem: I went into the Display menu item ( system/adminstration menu) , and saw that monitor type, and video card were unknown on the hardware tab. I tried to configure button. The "nv" driver was selected, but selecting it again, and hitting OK in the video card driver selection/configure window, resulted in no change to the hardware tab, which still said unknown video card. There was no popup indication of any problem, it just would not change to describe the video card in the hardware tab. On the same hardware tab, it is impossible to open the configuration window for the monitor, to select. Pressing the button causes nothing to happen. This used to work in FC5(even through thesame KVM). I can't get to 85Hz vertical refresh without manually editing the x configuration now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The FC6 Test 2 DVD iso version How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. use the hardware tab 2. 3. Actual results: Can't see video card selection changes, and can't make monitor selection changes. Expected results: Expect video card and monitor information to be selectable. Additional info: System AMD 64 bit Athlon 2400 200 GB SATA hard drive 512 MB Ram Memory Gigabit ethernet USB - printer HP PSC 1210 6600 GT Nvidia Video Card ( I don't often install NVIDIA's drivers, if I'm not doing something that needs the extra performance. ) 17" Samsung monitor synmaster 750s On board VIA sound ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Motherboard. The monitor,keyboard, and mouse, are shared with another computer via a KVM. This information came from my post on fedoraforum.org, it is titled FC6 Test 2 i386 observations, and probably give a better explanation of the overall set of issues I saw.
starting system-config-screen from the command line (in a console - logged in as root), I get python errors on line 330 of /usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py. There getMonitorID is called with a parameter (TRUE) but the parameter is not expected. Same is true for line 357 of said file.
This should be fixed in system-config-display-1.0.41-1.