Too much Debian real estate! Have to scroll...

[aquaboot]

Hello,

I'm running virtualbox on vista with debian as a virtual machine. All is well except that when I go to full screen mode (or small screen for that matter) for debian, the gnome real estate is too large. I have to scroll vertically and horizontally to see everything on the screen. I've played with screen resolution on vista to no avail. I've tried to adjust screen resolution in gnome but there are no entrees in the resolution drop-down menus. Has anyone else run into this?

Many Thanks,

ab

[Sasquatch]

If you have the GA installed, you don't want any resolution in your xorg.conf file, as that will disable dynamic resolution changes.

[rasker]

Sometimes dynamic resolution changes doesn't work. I have Fedora 10 guests on two different windows machines. On one machine dynamic resolution works fine and on the other the host video card is enabled but there is no monitor plugged in. I use RDP or vnc to access this machine graphically. On this machine Dynamic Resolution changing does not work and the virtual machine does not detect any video modes except 640x480 and 800x600. So to get anything higher one needs to have a manually configured xorg.conf.

[Sasquatch]

Sometimes dynamic resolution changes doesn't work. I have Fedora 10 guests on two different windows machines. On one machine dynamic resolution works fine and on the other the host video card is enabled but there is no monitor plugged in. I use RDP or vnc to access this machine graphically. On this machine Dynamic Resolution changing does not work and the virtual machine does not detect any video modes except 640x480 and 800x600. So to get anything higher one needs to have a manually configured xorg.conf.

If the dynamic resize doens't work, it means you have a resolution in your xorg.conf. The GA detect that and disables dynamic resizing. This was added in the 2.1.4 GA.

[aquaboot]

Thanks for the tips! I edited xorg.conf but gui would not start afterwards. Here is my xorg.conf file:

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
EndSection
[b]
Subsection "Display"
            Depth 1
            Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection[/b]

Thanks for your help!

[Sasquatch]

Do I have to keep telling everyone to use code blocks ? It's in the FPG.

If you comment the resolution part, it should use dynamic resizing. That is, if your distro allows an xorg.conf without resolutions. As it's Debian, it should. You do need to add the Driver "vboxvideo" line though.

[aquaboot]

Thanks Sasquatch,

I've entered the line:

Driver "vboxvideo"

to the Device block. At reboot, X.Org complains:

"Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist). No drivers available.

Thanks,
ab

[Sasquatch]

That means that the GA aren't installed properly. Please see /var/log/vboxinstall.log for more info.

[marriosuffy]

Im also looking into real estate as a career. But I have no idea where to get started in this field or what type of post secondary schoooling will be needed. Any help of advice would be great.

[Sasquatch]

Im also looking into real estate as a career. But I have no idea where to get started in this field or what type of post secondary schoooling will be needed. Any help of advice would be great.

What do you think this is, a social forum for asking which education to follow? Don't ask that here, go to Hyves or something for that.