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 automatically 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 usually 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 specified 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.

--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 resolution, 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 hardware.

--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 monitor. 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.

Xconfigurator will use the settings in /etc/sysconfig/mouse to determine the mouse type. Otherwise its will assume a Microsoft compatible mouse on /dev/ttyS0.