errors in starting system-config-display

[Alexander Apprich]

Umapathy,

Umapathy S wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I dont know if this is right group for this errors.  If not, please
> guide me to the appropriate group list.
> 
> I am unable to start system-config-display on my fedora core 2.  It
> spits out some python errors, which I am not able to understand.
> 
> * ddcprobe returned bogus values:
> ID:   None
> Name: None
> HorizSync: None
> VertSync:  None
>  
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 352, in ?
>     hardware_state = XF86HardwareState(xconfig)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/xhwstate.py", line 151,
> in __init_ _
>     self.init_from_xconfig(xconfig)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/xhwstate.py", line 284,
> in init_fr om_xconfig
>     self.all_resolutions.sort (compare_resolution)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/xhwstate.py", line 55,
> in compare_ resolution
>     a1 = resolution_area(res1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/xhwstate.py", line 51,
> in resoluti on_area
>     (w, h) = resolution_from_string(res)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/xhwstate.py", line 47,
> in resoluti on_from_string
>     (w, h) = string.split (res, "x")
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> 
> [root at localhost root]# uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.10-1.14_FC2 #1 Thu Feb 10 17:13:14 EST
> 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> The system is fully patched.
> 

Try running system-config-display with --reconfigure
I suspect a old buggy X-configuration is the problem.

> Thanks in advance
> 
> Umapathy
> 

Alex