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EvilFranky

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-11-27

Posts: 6

Limited screen resolutions.

Hi guys,

This is my first (and likely not my last) post asking for help

I have installed Arch on VirtualBox following the Wiki.  So far it hasn't been too bad but I think my inexperience is causing me problems setting up X11 properly.

I have installed Xorg and the Vbox guest additions, I then installed Gnome as my desktop and it all seems to boot fine.  Unfortunately I only have a choice of 3 resolutions from within Gnome itself, 640 * 480, 800 * 600 and 1024 * 768.  My main PC monitor is 1920 * 1200 and would like to use this for my Arch install.

How do I set this up?

Currently this is what my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file looks like:-

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "vboxmouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/vboxguest"
        Option      "CorePointer" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "vboxvideo"
EndSection

From other xorg.conf files I have seen in the past, this looks quite bare.

I then read the Xorg wiki for Arch also and states that to create a good base config file the following command should be ran:-

# xorg -configure

BUT!  I don't know how to quit back to a command line from Gnome and Kill the Xserver.  I press CTRL + ALT + F1 which gives me a command bash but the command 'killall X' gives me a 'no process found' error.

Phew!  That was a lot to get off my chest haha.

If anyone can give me a few pointers it would be most appreciated.

Cheers!

Frankie

Last edited by EvilFranky (2010-11-27 16:55:38)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Limited screen resolutions.

The process you are trying to kill is called X  not x

EvilFranky

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2010-11-27

Posts: 6

Re: Limited screen resolutions.

I know.

It's a typo on the original post.

Nichollan

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From: Stavanger, Norway

Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 110

Re: Limited screen resolutions.

Presumably the screen is virtual and provided by VirtualBox, so I guess you would have to configure VirtualBox to get a bigger screen.

EvilFranky

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2010-11-27

Posts: 6

Re: Limited screen resolutions.

Well no options that I can see that would do that, all I have is the ability to feed it more virtual VRAM which is currently set at 64MB.

Thanks for the help so far