Xconfigurator(1x) Red Hat Linux System Manual Xconfigurator(1x)NAMEXconfigurator - configure XFree86 server and display
SYNOPSISXconfigurator {--help,--expert}
Xconfigurator {--help,--kickstart,--server,--driver,
--card,--monitor,--hsync,--vsync,
--noddcprobe,--preferxf3,--preferxf4,
--listservers,--listmonitors,--listcards,
--startxonboot,--nodri,--usefbdev}
DESCRIPTIONXconfigurator sets up the necessary configuration files and file links
to use XFree86 on a Red Hat system. There are two modes of operation:
interactive and kickstart.
In interactive mode the user is prompted for the type of video card and
monitor attached to the system. Some of this information may be auto‐
matically probed and filled in. If --expert is specified then the user
will have an opportunity to override the probed values.
In kickstart mode, Xconfigurator will try to autoprobe all required
information, non-interactively. Video cards on the PCI bus will usu‐
ally be probed properly. Older video cards can be explicitely given
using the --card option. Use the --help option to see a complete list
of recognized video cards. Alternatively, the server can be specified
with the --server option. Also, the monitor type will have to be speci‐
fied with the --monitor option. Another way to give the monitor type
is to specify the horizontal and vertical sync rates for the monitor
using the --hsync and --vsync options.
OPTIONS
--help Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--listcards
Displays a list of supported video cards.
--listmonitors
Displays a list of supported monitors.
--listservers
Displays a list of supported XFree86 3 servers.
--expert
Gives the user manual control over some parameters which are
automatically satisfied in normal use.
--kickstart
Tells Xconfigurator to run in non-interactive mode, filling in
as much information as posible by probing the video card. If no
valid card is found, a standand VGA is assumed (640x480 resolu‐
tion, 16 colors). If no valid monitor is specified, a standard
VGA monitor is assumed (640x480 at 60 Hz).
--card <card>
Specifies the card type to use in kickstart mode. Use the
--help option to see a complete list of cards.
--server <server>
Specifies the server to use in kickstart mode. Will use the
file /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_<server>. Use the --help option to see
a complete list of servers.
--startxonboot
Automatically choose to have X start up when your system comes
up after a fresh reboot.
--driver <driver>
Specifies the XFree4 driver to use in kickstart mode.
--monitor <monitor>
Specifies the monitor type to use in kickstart mode. Use the
--help option to see a complete list of monitors.
--noddcprobe
Don't probe the monitor for specifications. This only has effect
on IA32 computers, since these are currently the only ones with
such probing. This can avoid crashing on some very broken hard‐
ware.
--nodri
Don't enable DRI on XFree 4 servers - for servers with hardware
accelerated 3D, this wil disable such support. This saves quite
a bit of memory, which will make higher resolutions possible
than with DRI enabled.
--preferxf4
Use the XFree 4 driver if available
--preferxf3
Use the XFree 3.3.x server if available
--hsync --vsync
Specifies the horizontal and vertical sync ranges for the moni‐
tor. An example of usage is
Xconfigurator--hsync "31.5,45-50" --vsync "50-70"
--usefbdev
Enables use of kernel fbdev for setting the video mode on cards
which support this feature. Note that use of this option may
require an alias for fb0 in /etc/modules.conf, or manual loading
of the fbdev driver specific to your video card.
NOTESXconfigurator will use the settings in /etc/sysconfig/mouse to deter‐
mine the mouse type. Otherwise its will assume a Microsoft compatible
mouse on /dev/ttyS0.
SEE ALSOmouseconfig(8)Linux Tue Aug 7 2001 Xconfigurator(1x)