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Re: virt-manager only runs at 800x600



On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:34:58AM -0400, Damon Chesser wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 11:16 -0400, Damon Chesser wrote:
> SNIP
> 
> I tried to modify xorg.conf to read this:
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
>         Subsection "Display"
>                 Depth 24
>                 Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
>         EndSubSection
> Endsection
> 
> It failed, xrandr still shows the max as 800x600
> 
> I am at an end and out of ideas.
> -- 
> Damon Chesser <damon@damtek.com>
> 
> 
> 
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If it's a _real_ Cirrus Logic 5446, then it may only have something 
like 2 or 4MB of memory and so Debian configures it conservatively.

If you can change the colour depth, do so to try. 8 bit rather than 16 
bit may allow you to have a higher res. Kill any running X (killall gdm 
/ killall kdm may help here).

Xorg -configure

as root may help. X writes a new xorg config file - 

/root/xorg.conf.new
 
by default - and you can run X with

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

If you get the X cursor on a grey background, you've got a working 
configuration. Look at that first. It may be appropriate to just cp/mv 
/root/xorg.conf.new directly to /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you're happy.

Hope this helps,

AndyC


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