From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-6.2.7 i686) Description of problem: When running 'Xconfigurator --kickstart --monitor "Compaq S510 Color Monitor" ' the program does not generate anything at all. The monitor name I get from the list produced by the command 'Xconfigurator --listmonitors |grep S510' Even when I fill in a wrong monitor name, Xconfigurator does not complain. I'm running the program in runlevel 3 with RHL 7.2 freshly installed on a "Compaq DeskPro EN" machine. When I run Xconfigurator manually the video-card and monitor are probed exactly right and a correct config-file is generated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Xconfigurator --kickstart --monitor "Compaq S510 Color Monitor" 2. 3. Actual Results: The screen flickers and some harddisk activity is heard and sometimes in /etc/X11 files named XF86Config{,-4}.old files are created. Expected Results: Correctly generated /etc/X11/XF86Config{,-4} files and appropriate backups. Additional info:
Xconfigurator is obsolete in our latest release of Red Hat Linux, and is no longer maintained except for security fixes. The recommendation is to use Red Hat Linux 8.0, in which all of this infrastructure has been completely rewritten from scratch in our new tools.