Comments on: Fixing screen size resolution in Virtual PC running Ubuntu

By: burhan

burhan — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:10:45 +0000

Thanks, it worked for me after removing "nonay" (funncy chars) and replacing "-" in the resolution path with "x".

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:45:48 +0000

I tried to increase screen resolution following these steps. I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on Virtual PC. It looked promising the first time: Screen resolution increased to 1280×1024, excellent screen. But, as soon as I typed password and pressed Enter, the screen went to some weird mode with overlapped lines and four cursors on it :-( and the screen size went back to 800×600. It is not readable at all.

I would appreciate any ideas.

By: NMStan

NMStan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:36:46 +0000

This worked~! …eventually. You have to be real careful and remove all the extra non-textual characters. There were about 3 quotes that looked regular , but close exam showed them to be sorta italicized, but were messing things up so I removed those. That helped. I found though the line that bore most watching was:

"Modes “1280Ã—1024″³ “1024Ã—768″³ “800Ã—600″³".

Replace the stray characters. Get rid of those 3 & A-thingies and replace the – with an small x. I found this a tech republic and it helped. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=2…. Using nano ensured just text was used. But it worked and my screen came up 1280-1024!!!! Changing resolution though forced me to do an Alt-R so you're on your own there. But 1280-1024 was all I wanted on my PC host 1600-1200 screen

By: Amors

Amors — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:14:16 +0000

It's working fine if you exclude the "1280×1024" resolution from the conf file.

By: James

James — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:45:56 +0000

I was able to fix the funky characters/quotes using the text editor using VPC 2.7 and Ubuntu 9.04 so that Ubuntu boots up with the replacement xorg.conf. However, the display size is 1600×1200 with a 1280×1024 window so that I have slider bars (I have a Dell flat panel that can go up to 1280×1024). When I go to the Preferences->Display I have a lot of other resolution choices like 1280×1024, 1152×864, 1024×768, 896×600, 800×600 and 800×512. But the only ones that work are 1600×1200 and 800×600 (but the 800×600 is not like the original low resolution 800×600 – it is severely stretched out making it unusable). And all the other modes are just unreadable blurry lines so I have to use Alt-R to restore the original 1600×1200. Anyone know how this can be fixed? Ideally would like to use either 1280×1024 or 1024×768.