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Nha

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Registered: 2012-02-18

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[SOLVED] Virtualbox video resolution

Since having upgraded some packages a few days ago, among which xorg server 1.12, I have been unable to get the correct resolution in my Arch vbox guest (on a win7 host).

I have since installed xorg 1.11 again, along with the vesa and evdev drivers for that version from the [xorg111] repo (as suggested in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137564 ). Also disabled the testing repos and reinstalled the packages that were marked as newer than in the repos.

xrandr gives me:

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       61.0* 
   800x600        61.0  
   640x480        60.0

So I'm stuck with a 1024x768 resolution on a laptop screen that previously worked fine with 1366x768. Xrandr used to name the screen something other than "default", but I can't remember what it was.

Xorg log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/567041/
dmesg log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/567042/

In the previously mentioned thread I've noticed that xorg wants to load a vboxvideo module, which isn't the case here, so I was wondering if it's supposed to want to load vboxvideo module or not?
I have updated virtualbox to 4.1.10 r76795, the guest addtions and modules should be the correct versions as well.

pacman -Qi virtualbox-archlinux-additions

Name           : virtualbox-archlinux-additions
Version        : 4.1.10-1
...
Architecture   : x86_64
Build Date     : Wed 14 Mar 2012 10:59:43 AM CET
Install Date   : Thu 15 Mar 2012 10:09:29 AM CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description    : Additions only for Arch Linux guests (userspace tools)

pacman -Qi virtualbox-archlinux-modules

Name           : virtualbox-archlinux-modules
Version        : 4.1.10-1
...
Architecture   : x86_64
Build Date     : Wed 14 Mar 2012 10:20:45 AM CET
Install Date   : Thu 15 Mar 2012 10:09:23 AM CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description    : Additions only for Arch Linux guests (kernel modules)

edit: seems to have been solved automagically with updating recently

Last edited by Nha (2012-03-19 17:03:28)