From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The installer and X can not probe my monitor on my Laptop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installing RedHat Linux 7.2 2. Press "Test configuration" under installation or start the X server after installation Actual Results: Under installation: The "Test configuration" in the installer does not work. After installation: Starting X does not work. Expected Results: Under installation: The X server should start and give me the usual question if I am happy or not with the resultion. After installation: The X server should start. Additional info: The X server starts fine without any configuration under a normal installation of RedHat 7.1 The videocard is: ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x The output of the failing start of X server is attached. The output of the X configuration file is attached.
Created attachment 34863 [details] Output from X server
Created attachment 34864 [details] XFree86 configuration file
Try running Xconfigurator and reconfiguring. Sometimes anaconda gets something wrong, and running Xconfigurator fixes it. Does it work after running Xconfigurator?
1) Starting Xconfigurator 2) Clicking OK 3) Info from Xconfigurator: PCI probing found a: PCI Entry: ATI|Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x X Server: None XFree4 driver: ati (default) 4) Clicking OK 5) It does not find my monitor so I have to choose. I chosse "custom" 6) Next window is information. Clicking OK. 7) Monitor Setup I choose "Standard VGA, 640x480", this really should work. 8) I select vericalt sync rate of 50-70 Hz 9) Screen config. I choose "Probe" 10) Information. Clicking OK to start probe 11) The screen blinks 12) Information that the probe failed. Clicking OK. 13) Xconfigurator asks the monitor questions again, I'm answering the same 14) Information. (It going to test the configuration). 15) Information that the test failed. This is a relatively new computer which I think that anaconda/Xconfiguration should be able to find monitor information itself. FYI: I have tried various other options to Xconfigurator.
As mentioned before everything worked fine with RedHat Linux 7.1, the problem came around with RedHat Linux 7.2
I can fix the error by commenting out the following lines in the XFree configuration file (Monitor section): HorizSync VertRefresh This bug should maybe be moved to Xconfigurator or anaconda?
Whatever this problem is/was, it probably isn't still relevant in our latest release, so I'm closing this out. If there are similar problems in Red Hat Linux 9, please open a new bug report against redhat-config-xfree86 which is our new X config tool. Xconfigurator is now obsolete and no longer being maintained. Thanks.