I just tried to install Kubuntu LTS, installed fine, Parallels tools installed fine as well, but I can't get the screen resolution to be any greater than the std 1024x768, even though the xorg.conf files is telling it to use the Parallel Screen, Parallels, etc etc etc. So Parallels Tools appears to have installed fine but I just can't get the screen resolution to go full screen like I want, I manually edited xorg.conf and added 1440x900 and all and no matter what I try nothing works. Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this. I've tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg from the ubuntu terminal. This runs the command line configuration tool for xorg. When going through the options I selected the default vesa driver sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf First, you may need to change the monitor refresh rate section to allow X to display your new resolution(s). Scroll down to the section labelled monitor. See the HorizSync and VertRefresh values? Change these to read HorizSync 30-86 VertRefresh 50-160 Note: these are the refresh rates for my CRT, they should be sufficient for most resolutions. You may have to bump up the maximum value of these to handle resolutions higher than 1600x1200. Also note that Parallels virtualizes the display, so you dont need to worry about setting correct values for your monitor - it's sufficient to just fake out X in this case. Next, scroll down to the screen section: Section "Screen". Notice that this section contains several subsections, one for each color depth. In our case, ignore all but the 24-bit color depth (Depth 24). Add the desired resolution(s) to the BEGINNING of this list: Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" And other such stuff with no luck. TIA, Peter
What's about the video RAM for your VM? Did you increase that? Standard setting is just 3MB which will not allow bigger resolutions than 1024x768. I had the same with Ubuntu 10.04, after increasing the video RAM the problem was gone. Cheers
