[SoaS] Fwd: Blueberry Screen Resolution

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Kevin,

On 27 Feb 2010, at 06:04, Kevin Petursson wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> I installed the guest additions and was then able to set screen size to 1024x768.  Using xrandr i'm only given a couple of options for screen size, 1024x768, 800x600. Is there a way to get SaoS to allow me more choices? or is this a limitation of Vitrualbox, and should I look at trying a different virtual machine program?  Your help and advice is greatly appriciated.

I'm running VirtualBox on a Mac here and manage to get at any supported resolution by tweaking what grub passes to the kernel at VM boot time (no need for installing the guest additions). This gives you your choice of screen size for the VM, even during boot, so you even get to see the 'pretty boot' animation. Here's one email from the archive that might help, have a look at step 10 and on:

	http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2009-December/000587.html

And the list of VGA modes VirtualBox listed for my Mac Book Pro 17":

	http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/attachments/20091218/9008e92c/attachment.png 

Regards,
--Gary

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> I think changing the resolution in the Terminal activity should work - enter
>> 
>> 	xrandr -s 1024x768
>> 
>> I'm not sure if Virtual Box supports the non-standard 1200x900 resolution. VMWare does, in OLPC images there used to be a xorg-vmware.conf for that purpose. Have not tried with SoaS though.
>> 
>> - Bert -
>> 
>> On 26.02.2010, at 17:06, Sean Daly wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> Tom, you're a whiz with VMs :-) perhaps you have advice for Kevin?
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> Sean
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Kevin Petursson 
>>> <thalon at mymts.net>
>>> 
>>> Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM
>>> Subject: Blueberry Screen Resolution
>>> To: 
>>> feedback at sugarlabs.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am running Blueberry release in Sun Virtual Box Environment on a
>>> Windows XP machine.  I tried to use the Pippy python programming
>>> application but was unable to see very much of the left hand column of
>>> what seem to be example folders/programs.  Is there a way to increase
>>> the screen resolution to 1200x900 (XO native resolution) from the
>>> default 800x600?
>>> 
>>> So far my kids (7 and 4) both love using this OS.  Although at this
>>> point they see it a just another program.  Keep up the good work.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Kevin Petursson
>>> Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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