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Need help increasting screen resolution
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Oct 14, 2008 8:09 PM
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So, I've successfully installed OpenSolaris 2008:05 using VirtualBox on my laptop. Everything is working great, but I want to increase the size of the screen resolution. I know my card can handle more...it's a GeForce 8600M GT card.
When I try to run the Nvidia X Server Settings, I get the following error message:
You do not appear to be using the NVIDA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server.
After I do this, my desktop won't launch until I remove the /etc/X11/xorg.conf created by the nvidia-xconfig script.
Any suggestions?
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Paul
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Re: [osol-help] Need help increasting screen resolution
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Oct 14, 2008 8:52 PM
in response to: pkasper
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Hi Paul!
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:09:23PM -0700, Paul Kasper wrote:
> So, I've successfully installed OpenSolaris 2008:05 using VirtualBox on my laptop. Everything is working great, but I want to increase the size of the screen resolution. I know my card can handle more...it's a GeForce 8600M GT card.
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> When I try to run the Nvidia X Server Settings, I get the following error message:
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> You do not appear to be using the NVIDA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server.
When running under VirtualBox, you are using a virtualized graphics driver
and not the Nvidia one.
1. Did you install the Solaris Host additions package on your guest?
2. How much RAM did you allocate to the display, via the VirtualBox UI?
With #1 installed, you should be able to resize your window via the
mouse to your desired size.
If that doesn't work, some have had success in using the VirtualBox CLI
to resize it, a la:
VBoxManage controlvm setvideomodehint 1280 1024 32
but hopefully you don't need to do this.
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Re: [osol-help] Need help increasting screen resolution
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Oct 14, 2008 10:07 PM
in response to: pschow
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Good to hear from you Peter.
I increased the video ram to 128 and that didn't help. I can still only select 1024x768.
I'm not sure what Solaris Host additions package you are referring to. I tried to search for it in the package repository but didn't find anything. Can you give me the specific package name?
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Paul
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Re: [osol-help] Need help increasting screen resolution
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Oct 15, 2008 8:37 AM
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Hi Paul,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:07:37PM -0700, Paul Kasper wrote:
> I'm not sure what Solaris Host additions package you are referring to. I tried to search for it in the package repository but didn't find anything. Can you give me the specific package name?
It's explained more in the User Manual, Chapter 4.
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.2/UserManual.pdf
You can easily mount the Host Additions package on your OpenSolaris
guest via the UI menubar:
Devices -> Install Guest Additions
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Re: [osol-help] Need help increasing screen resolution
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Oct 15, 2008 12:40 PM
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o.k., so I did a pkgadd of the VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg package.
After a reboot, the only change to the screen resolution screen is that the Hz is 60 instead of 71. The resolution is still capped at 1024x768.
So, what does the VBoxSolarisAdditions package actually add?
Well, let me know if there are any other things to try.
To be clear, my virtualbox is running on OS X.
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Paul
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Re: [osol-help] Need help increasing screen resolution
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Oct 15, 2008 12:59 PM
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Actually, looking through a few blogs, it looks like I need to do the VBoxManage command you stated earlier to change the VBox default.
VBoxManage controlvm setvideomodehint 1280 1024 32
However, when I try to run this, I get the following error:
[!] FAILED calling virtualBox->FindMachine (Bstr(argv[0]), machine.asOutParam()) at line 5705!
[!] Primary RC = NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057) - Invalid argument value
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057) - Invalid argument value
[!] Text = Could not find a registered machine named 'VBoxManage'
[!] Component = VirtualBox, Interface: IVirtualBox, {557a07bc-e6ae-4520-a361-4a8493199137}
[!] Callee = IVirtualBox, {557a07bc-e6ae-4520-a361-4a8493199137}
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