Hello, I installed parallels RC3, and have had nothing but trouble in linux. I posted for many issues, but this one is just annoying. I want to add the macbook 1280x800 res, so I edit the xorg.conf, I add a custom res.. Then i select the res in the display manager... Nothing happens. It says "is this setting ok?" with the yes/revert buttons... The resolution does not change. Even before you get fancy with parallels tools.. this should work... Am i doing somthing wrong? -Jordan
Hard to say from that if yoiu are or not. But there are NO tools for Linux yet, so you do need to pick a resolution that is standard and perhaps slightly smaller than the native resolution of the Mac you are using. So it is like a very large window, but not 100% maxed out. That's what I had to do for all my different non XP OS's. That seemed to fix my issues. Good luck.
I installed ubuntu on my macbook today (dual boot), i used this to EASILY switch to 1280 x 800 res : sudo software-properties -e universe sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install 915resolution It will take affect after restart - you will be able to select the higher res. I really hope it works! cheers chrisj303
You don't need 915resolution if you run it in parallels. Just run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and use the defaults for just about everything..eventually it'll ask you what resolutions you want to use..check off 1280x800. There's also a handful of torrents on thepiratebay for (x)ubuntu parallels images, and other linux distros
