On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Lisa Denia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've built VirtualBox from SVN, revision 7024. It works great, but the > vboxvideo module for Linux/X has a little bug. > It does _always_ use 1280x768, regardless of what you define in > xorg.conf. You can later choose another resolution, e.g. with > "gnome-display-properties" from Gnome or even xrandr(I think they are > just the same ;)). > The bug is definitively in the guest additions themselves, if I install > an older guest additions package everything works as expected. > > There is also an interesting line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log in the guest: > (EE) VBoxVideo(0): Failed to obtain the last resolution requested by the > guest, rc=-4. > > I've tested Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 Alpha5 as guests, host is Ubuntu 7.10. > > Thank you,
One possibility to workaround it, is to lower your Video RAM to 1MB. This will limit resolution to 800x600. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
