[OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

[Jim Klimov]

18 апреля 2014 г. 17:28:46 CEST, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> пишет:
>Dmitry Kozhinov <dima at desktopfay.com> writes:
>
>> I have exactly the same question.
>> OI allows me to select maximum resolution of 1024x768 only.
>> LCD monitor has slightly better resolution (1152x1024?). The monitor
>> has a VGA connector, and videocard has a DVI. I believe that my
>> videocard is capable of supporting much higher resolutions than
>> 1024x768 (some nVidia, cannot remember exact model, I am now away
>from
>> my server). Monitor is plugged via DVI-VGA adapter, and likely this
>is
>> why OI cannot recognize monitor model (recognizes as generic
>> monitor). nVidia card is recognized. How can I convince OI to set
>> higher resolution?
>>
>>> Can anyone offer any ideas about how to get higher screen res.
>
>I have no technical knowledge of how the vm interplay's with the host
>OS or hardware.
>
>But, I can tell you that since I posted my question, I did discover
>that one of the vms I spoke of had not had the guest additions
>installed.  My faulty memory told me it had, but on installing the
>latest additions I found the vm (vm2) that had the lower res now went
>up to the higher res available on vm1.
>
>So not sure what makes that happen but guessing a newer more robust
>video driver in the additions.
>
>So cutting to the chase; you might make sure the vm of yours with low
>res, has had the latest guest additions installed.
>
>If you have an older version installed you can remove it with
>
>   `pkgrm SUNWvboxguest'
>
>before installing the current version.
>
>A small note on version: It is a total pain in the neck to discover
>what version of guest additions is running.  I never did get it
>figured out.  I found nifty commands on linux that will show it
>(lsmod) but that command is unknown on my OpenIndiana vm.
>
>None of the things I dreamed up worked and after pounding away at
>google for a good half hour I decided it wasn't worth the time and
>effort.
>
>I suggest just to uninstall the current package with cmd mentioned
>above and then install the pkg from vbox-4.3.10 r93012.  Far as I know
>that is the most recent release and will have the most recent
>additions.
>
>You probably have all this covered but for completeness:
>
>Install additions:
>
>on vbox vm GUI interface: `Devices/Install guest additions cd image'
>
>Force unmount if necessary in dialog resulting from above menu item.
>
>cd as root (if you go there as user and try to use sudo it will fail.
>I never bothered with pfexec so not sure if that would work either):
> cd  /media/VBOX*
>
>  pkgadd -d ./VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
>
>  Follow the prompts from there.
>
>Let us know if any of this helped.
>
>
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