From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-0.1.25smp i686) I've downloaded Xconfigurator 4.9.19-1 from rawhide and it still has the problem of having to manually edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run Xconfigurator 2.Select 24pbb all resolutions and nothing else (i.e. not 16bpp) 3. The behavior is better with this latest version of Xconfigurator. If I tell Xconfigurator to probe my card and then select the default 1600x1200 24bpp resolution, then it generates the proper /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. But if I override the default of 1 resolution setting at 24bpp, and then choose to have all settings allowed for 24bpp, an /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file is generated with a default depts of 24bpp at 640x480 resolution, at which point I have to go into the file, edit it and change the default depth to 24. Again, this is a trivial change, but could annoy the non-emacs/non-sysadmin non-expert type. I've got a g450 card and an a viewsonic PT810-2 monitor. (Also, Xconfigurator does not find my monitor properly and I have to select it by hand. I'm not sure if this is because my monitor is rather old and does not have a query feature.)
I can't reproduce this with 4.9.25 on a 16 meg G450 today. I followed the steps you did above -- saying "no" to the autoprobed 1600x1200 @24bpp, and manually selecting all 24bpp resolutions. The following device section was written to XF86Config-4: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Matrox|MGA G450 AGP" Monitor "Iiyama A102GT, VisionMasterPro 502" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection And the server properly starts at 1600x1200, 24 bit color.