[SoaS] Fwd: Blueberry Screen Resolution

[Bert Freudenberg]

1200x900 is not a standard VESA resolution so no emulator offers it by default. I don't think it would be impossible to add to VirtualBox or Qemu (it's open-source after all) but I can't remember anyone ever doing that.

What I do know is that with a tweaked xorg.conf and the VMWare display drivers you can get 1200x900 in VMWare:

http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2008/12/emulating-latest-stable-olpc-xo.html

Something similar may work in VirtualBox too, but I don't know how.

- Bert -


On 27.02.2010, at 07:04, 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.
> 
> Kevin.
> 
> 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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