[Desktop-packages] [Bug 969154] Re: Unable to set 1920x1080 resolution in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta2 as a VMWare Workstation 8 guest

2013-01-28 Thread Tobias Beer
Never change a running system. Well, I dared to upgrade Kubuntu from 12.04 to 12.1 and here's what happened: a) The resolution 1920x1080 is still there thanks to the xorg.conf by intel (dts-dreamer) and can still be selected and set in the display settings. b) However, whenever I restart, the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 969154] Re: Unable to set 1920x1080 resolution in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta2 as a VMWare Workstation 8 guest

2013-01-27 Thread Tobias Beer
@dts-dreamer @crichton Just to confirm, creating an xorg.conf as attached by the #patch from intel (dts-dreamer) worked for me. I don't know if any (other virtualized) hardware is (negatively) affected by simply using this xorg.conf ...but setting 1920x1080 is now available under display

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 969154] Re: Unable to set 1920x1080 resolution in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta2 as a VMWare Workstation 8 guest

2013-01-25 Thread Tobias Beer
@karanganesha04 @chris-m-solomon: Are you sure that this does actually set the resolution and not only stretches whatever resolution is actually set to cover the entire screen? ...at least this is what happens for me when I try your method. As for the xorg.conf fix: I had no luck with that as