Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0285 - system-config-display, rhpxl, and pyxf86config bug fix update

Synopsis

system-config-display, rhpxl, and pyxf86config bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated system-config-display, rhpxl, and pyxf86config packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The system-config-display package contains a tool for configuring the xorg.conf file that is used by the X Window System for display configuration. The rhpxl package contains a Python library for configuring and running the X Window System. The pyxf86config package contains a Python binding to the C-language parser for the X Window System's xorg.conf file.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, running the system-config-display utility with the "--set-hsync" and "--set-vsync" command line options or setting these options in a kickstart file for Anaconda failed to create a "Monitor" section in the xorg.conf file. This update corrects this error so that the system-config-display utility now creates this section as expected. (BZ#429949, BZ#750352)

  • The previous version of the system-config-display utility allowed the user to configure dual head mode regardless of the driver in use. Consequent to this, enabling dual head mode on a system with a video driver that does not support this feature (such as "nv") caused system-config-display to create a non-working configuration file. With this update, the utility has been adapted to disable dual head mode when such a driver is detected. (BZ#430579)

  • Previously, an incomplete dual head configuration could cause the system-config-display utility to terminate unexpectedly with a traceback. This update adapts the underlying source code to make sure that such an error no longer occurs. (BZ#755542)

All users of system-config-display, rhpxl, and pyxf86config are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • pyxf86config-0.3.31-3.el5.src.rpm
  • pyxf86config-0.3.31-3.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rhpxl-0.41.1-12.el5.i386.rpm
  • rhpxl-0.41.1-12.el5.src.rpm
  • rhpxl-0.41.1-12.el5.ppc.rpm
  • system-config-display-1.0.48-4.el5.src.rpm
  • system-config-display-1.0.48-4.el5.noarch.rpm
  • pyxf86config-0.3.31-3.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rhpxl-0.41.1-12.el5.ia64.rpm
  • pyxf86config-0.3.31-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • pyxf86config-0.3.31-3.el5.i386.rpm
  • rhpxl-0.41.1-12.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information