I've tried this on two monitor's both of witch where picked up correctly during the hardwareconfigeration
It's not the monitor but rather the video card so switching the monitors won't make a difference. Try doing a text install rather than a GUI and configure the video card after. You may want to look at the following as it seems to be a known problem in Red Hat (may not be in other distributions):

- http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/110881
- http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwbo...rum/22413.html
- https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00602.html

Alternatively, go download Knoppix-STD and use that. It's easier in that you don't have to worry about learning how to install something or learn anything for that matter. Your right. Linux sux because you have to learn something.