Thread: Fixing Display Size Problems under Windows7 Virutal PC

installing ubuntu windows 7 virtual pc yielded 800x600 screen. virtual pc emulates s3 trio 4 megabytes of video ram.

specifying driver "s3" makes system/preferences/display work more consistently.

looking in /var/log/xorg.0.log showed display modes being rejected because of horizontal , vertical refresh mismatches default configuration, , being rejected because of video memory size.

following /etc/x11/xorg.conf produced greater number of usable display sizes show in system/preferences/display menu.

- rich


section "device"
identifier "generic video card"
driver "s3"
busid "pci:0:8:0"
endsection

section "monitor"
identifier "generic monitor"
option "dpms"
horizsync 0-150
vertrefresh 0-160
endsection

section "screen"
identifier "default screen"
device "generic video card"
monitor "generic monitor"
defaultdepth 16
subsection "display"
depth 16
endsubsection
endsection

section "serverlayout"
identifier "default layout"
screen "default screen"
endsection

thank much!

fixed display problems ubuntu 11.10 on virtualpc in windows 7. here copy of xorg.conf,

code:

# xorg.conf (xorg x window system server configuration file)  #  # file generated dexconf, debian x configuration tool, using  # values debconf database.  #  # edit file caution, , see xorg.conf manual page.  # (type "man xorg.conf" @ shell prompt.)  #  # file automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*  # if has not been modified since last upgrade of xserver-xorg  # package.  #  # if have edited file automatically updated  # again, run following command:  # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg    section "files"  endsection    section "inputdevice"      identifier "generic keyboard"      driver "kbd"      option "corekeyboard"      option "xkbrules" "xorg"      option "xkbmodel" "pc105"      option "xkblayout" "us"  endsection    section "inputdevice"      identifier "configured mouse"      driver "vmmouse"      option "corepointer"      option "device" "/dev/input/mice"      option "protocol" "imps/2"      option "zaxismapping" "4 5"      option "emulate3buttons" "true"  endsection    section "device"      identifier "generic video card"      driver "s3"      busid "pci:0:8:0"  endsection    section "monitor"      identifier "generic monitor"      option "dpms"      horizsync 0-150      vertrefresh 0-160  endsection    section "screen"      identifier "default screen"      device "generic video card"      monitor "generic monitor"      defaultdepth 16      subsection "display"      depth 16      endsubsection  endsection    section "serverlayout"      identifier "default layout"      screen "default screen"      inputdevice "generic keyboard"      inputdevice "configured mouse"  endsection

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