F8 display misbehaving -- update

Beartooth Sciurivore beartooth at swva.net
Fri Dec 14 19:16:52 UTC 2007


On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:06:58 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

> 1916	The display on my main F8 machine looked a little odd; so I went 
to
> Main Menu > System > Administration > Display ; gave the root password ;
> found it set to the next bigger monitor than my Acer AL1916, which is
> 1280x1024 -- despite the fact that Fedora on that machine (but not my
> others) does recognize the monitor. (The others, behind the same KVM
> switch -- all installed with peripherals connected directly, *not*
> behind the switch -- don't even list it, and have to be set for generic
> LCD 1280x1024.)
> 
> 	Then I logged out and back in.
> 
> 	The display still looks odd, though in a different way.
> 
> 	But it won't let me tinker. I get as far as giving the root
> password, but the system-config-display GUI, or whatever it is, never
> launches!

	I now see this : 

[root at topblack btth]# system-config-display
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 381, in <module>
    dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, 
rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo())
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 533, in 
__init__
    self.state.recalc_mode()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 387, in 
recalc_mode
    self.colordepth = availableDepth[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root at topblack btth]# 


-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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