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Resolution problem in 11.04

Asked by kas

Every single time a new version of Ubuntu comes out I end up spending days trying to set the screen resolution to 1440x900.
And it seems that every single time there is some different set of hoops I have to just through to accomplish what every other OS seems to do without effort.
Annoying, to say the least.

I have a MacBook Pro with screen resolution of 1440x900.
I run Ubuntu as a client under VirtualBox.

This time I am trying to get version 11.04 running at 1440x900 without success.
None of the suggestions I have found concerning earlier releases of Ubuntu seem to work this time.
The highest resolution I see with xrandr -q is 1024x768 --- unusable

Anybody have the latest set of hoops for this issue?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you install the guest additions. The host OS is completely moot.

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kas (kirk-sauber) said : 		#2

Yes, host additions installed. To no effect.

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kas (kirk-sauber) said : 		#3

Correction - before I ran/installed the Guest Additions, the highest res available was 800x600
and now it is 1024x768, so that is an improvement.

I've re-installed the Guest Additions a couple of times to see if it changed anything - to no effect.

I've re-booted several times, both at the client level, as well as at the VirtualBox and system level - to no effect.

:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 64 x 64, current 1024 x 768, maximum 32000 x 32000
VBOX0 connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768 60.0*+
   800x600 60.0
   640x480 60.0

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

ok can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep -i guest

Thanks

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kas (kirk-sauber) said : 		#5

:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i guest
ii gdm-guest-session 0.24 gdm extension for guest session

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=777759

Has an xorg.conf you can use, change the resolution to what you desire and it may work.If it doesn't then boot to root recovery mode and run:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf_old

Then reboot

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kas (kirk-sauber) said : 		#7

Worked perfectly! Many thanks for all the help!

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kas (kirk-sauber) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.