That is a bit trickier.
Depending on the driver it uses, you might be able to simply specify
the display mode in the Display section. However, if you are NOT
lucky, you will need to generate a modeline. Read up on the xorg.conf
manpage, it's too complicated for me to explain it all in my own
words.
Most likely this is a battle already fought and won by someone. Check
the VM's forums etc.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, draeath wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just installed Ubuntu 9.110 in a VM. Haven't got to use it, mainly
>>> getting it fit to run in a limited environment (not much disk or RAM, no
>>> printing or IMs, etc). Gnome's out in favor of xfce, no OpenOffice, that
>>> sort of thing. 1. Where the heck did they hide xorg.conf? 2. What's a
>>> goot CLI tool (or one whose output can be dumped to a file) for getting
>>> the
>>> sizes of installed packages? Right now I'm using something I wrote which
>>> takes all the files in a package and adds up their sizes (or something
>>> like
>>> that). Needless to say, it's very slow.
>
>> There is no xorg.conf by default. Newer versions of X autodetect
>> everything if this file is absent.
>
> OK, I'll give it the chance. How do I tell gdm to use 1400x1050 instead of
> 800x600? This is in a VM so the hardware's a bit weird.
>
> --
> "On two occasions I have been asked, -- 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put
> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
> ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
> that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage, 1864.
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