>> I have been told by #debian-x that when you use VirtualBox, you should use virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 (include this in your package lists) so that vboxvideo will be used instead of vesa (but check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if it does).
Thanks again Ben. Noted. Good to know. On 29 August 2010 16:42, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > > > On 29/08/10 06:29 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > > >> Let's address that. No, you shouldn't need an xorg.conf. What was the > video hardware? Or did you do that in a VM? Specifically, Virtualbox with > lenny used the correct resolution and in squeeze it does not due to a bug I > can dig up (if it is relevant to your case). It should be fine on the real > video hardware, though. > > Yes I am testing in Virtualbox but didn't know about the bug. And I guess > it's quite relevant to my case. The resolution doesn't go up more than 800 > by 600. In Lenny it's great though as you said. Can you please elaborate > about the bug, if possible? thanks > > See this bug against the vesa driver: > > http://bugs.debian.org/566153 > > I have been told by #debian-x that when you use VirtualBox, you should use > virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 (include this in your package lists) so that > vboxvideo will be used instead of vesa (but check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see > if it does). > > If you're still having problems even after confirming that vboxvideo is > being used, then we have another problem with the vboxvideo driver (but I > see no relevant bugs filed about this, so I am hoping this is not the case). > > Ben > > -- Robert http://www.weavefx.com
