changing your monitor
 

How can I get fedora to detect a new monitor and run the wizard to install it?

Will it detect the different monitor at boot up and start the wizard on its own. Or will I have to run a command to get it to setup the new monitor?

And what is the command.

It SHOULD find it on startup.

X config
 

I dont know much about fedora, but if doesn't automatically detect like snatale1 says then your going to have to update your x configuration manually. Are you useing Xorg or Xfree86?

I got brave today and tried changing to a different monitor on my FC2 system.
well really I did it with out thinking I move my linux box to a new location and used an existing monitor. I do that with my windows boxes some times and did it out of habit.

It did not auto detect it. The screen just went blank after the text part of boot-up was finished and the graphics part started.

I have not tested it on my FC3 system yet.

I know with Knoppix the monitor is auto detected so there has to be a way.
Changing the X11 files is a pain. some times I take my linux box with me and use what ever monitor is available. So far I have had to use it in text mode only when doing this.

If any one else has any ideals let me know.

You asked if I was runing XFree86 or Xorg . Im using what ever is the default with the FC2 install on that system.
What would be the command to find out?

That would be Xorg then, as for the command to find out, for future reference,

<code>
X -version
</code>

If your useing multiple monitors, but the same ones (i.e. the one in your living room, the one at work) then you might consider setting up a couple monitor profiles. You could have several xorg.conf's, for instance one called xorg.conf.default and another called xorg.conf.work. Then you could symbolically link the monitor profile you wont to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you like this idea I will write you a shell script to ask which monitor profile it should link to xorg.conf at boot time