Can't get past 800x600 screen resolution

E

ehowell

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Hi,

I'm running Parallels 2.2 Beta with SUSE 10.0 as a guest on a Windows XP host IBM Thinkpad laptop.

I would love to get something larger than 800x600 but anytime I try to set the resolution in the guest OS it is immediately bumped back down to 800x600 by SaX.

I have set 1280x1024 and 1400x1050 as resolutions in the Parallels options.

Any help in this would be most appreciated. I can give more information if needed.

Thanks!
 
You should try to reconfigure your X server. Sorry that I can't give you a command to do that since I use Debian based Ubuntu :(
Or you could manually add the new resolutions to xorg.conf and try it. As root edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and in the Screen section, add the resolutions you want. For example:
Code: 
Section "Screen"
    [... I omitted this part for clarity]

    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection
Save the file and restart to see if you got any luck :)
 
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You should be able to do it through Yast. In the hardware section is a "graphics card and monitor" item.

You can also setup custom resolutions in the Parallels configuration that should be available in the guest OS.
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I'm hoping that the answer lies in my xorg.conf file. It looks like what I have is limited to 800x600 there.

As for YAST, if I got through the GUI I get tons of options, but upon testing it instantly reverts to 800x600. If I try and change the display through Kcontrol (peripherals) I can only choose 800x600. If I change the settings through the GUI, it also overwrites

I also have default vesa graphics, is there a way to manually enter or have YAST detect the actual ATI card that's in my laptop, or is that part of the Parallels virtualization process?

Thanks

Code: 
Section "Device"
   BoardName   "Framebuffer Graphics"
   BusID               "0:2:0"
   Driver               "fbdev"
   Identifier           "Device[0]"
   Screen              "0"
   VendorName   "VESA"
EndSection
 
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Parallels uses virtualized hardware which includes the video. The guest OS will detect the virtualized hardware, currently vesa compatible video. Better video is on the way.
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To fix the lock at 800x600 I actually made the change in the menu.lst file. It seems that grub was locking my resolution. Once I changed the vga option in grub it worked fine.

Actually, in thinking about it, maybe removing the vga option on the kernal line would have been better, then I could change my resolution through sax?

This is where I got the info to make the change:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258484&highlight=kernel+booting+parameters
 
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