Problem w/xorg.conf and screen resolution

[jaydog]

I'm running a new installation and freshly updated version of Fedora 9 installed within VMware Server Console (1.0.6 build-91891).

My version of Fedora:

[root@alice ~]# uname -a
Linux alice 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Wed May 21 18:12:35 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I have installed the VMware Tools RPM:

[root@alice ~]# rpm -qi VMwareTools-6534-91891.i386
Name        : VMwareTools                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 6534                              Vendor: VMware, Inc.
Release     : 91891                         Build Date: Fri 09 May 2008 08:42:17 PM PDT
Install Date: Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:41:30 PM PDT      Build Host: pa-build89.eng.vmware.com
Group       : Applications/System           Source RPM: VMwareTools-6534-91891.src.rpm
Size        : 50501263                         License: commercial
Signature   : (none)
Summary     : VMware Tools
Description :
The VMware Tools package provides support required for shared folders and
for drag and drop operations. Other tools in the package support
synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host,
automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor, copying and pasting
between guest and host, and improved mouse performance. The SVGA driver
provides significantly faster graphics performance.

I can't seem to get my screen resolution out of 2048x1536, even though my xorg.conf file is configured for widescreen display of 1920x1200:

[root@alice ~]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 74.5
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1920x1200" "1920x1080" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1360x768" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "640x400"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

[jaydog]

Some additional information from /var/log/Xorg.o.log file. It almost looks as if the VMware drivers don't support the widescreen resolution I want, which is strange because I had it working fine before I ran the updater.

(II) VMWARE(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-80.00 kHz
(II) VMWARE(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-75.00 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Clock range:   0.00 to 400000.00 MHz
[Snip...]
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "416x312" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1360x768" (monitor doesn't support reduced blanking)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "680x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "680x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "720x450" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "800x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (monitor doesn't support reduced blanking)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1920x1080" (monitor doesn't support reduced blanking)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "960x540" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1920x1200" (monitor doesn't support reduced blanking)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "960x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using mode "1920x1200" (no mode of this name)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using mode "1920x1080" (no mode of this name)
(II) VMWARE(0): Not using mode "640x400" (no mode of this name)
(--) VMWARE(0): Virtual size is 1680x1200 (pitch 1696)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1680x1050": 174.0 MHz, 76.6 kHz, 69.9 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x69.9  174.00  1680 1800 1976 2272  1050 1053 1059 1096 -hsync +vsync (76.6 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1600x1200": 162.0 MHz, 75.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1600x1200"x60.0  162.00  1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync (75.0 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1440x900": 106.5 MHz, 55.9 kHz, 59.9 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1440x900"x59.9  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1400x1050": 145.1 MHz, 76.5 kHz, 70.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1400x1050"x70.0  145.06  1400 1496 1648 1896  1050 1051 1054 1093 -hsync +vsync (76.5 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1360x768": 84.8 MHz, 47.7 kHz, 59.8 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1360x768"x59.8   84.75  1360 1432 1568 1776  768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync (47.7 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1280x1024": 135.0 MHz, 80.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x75.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1280x960": 108.0 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1280x960"x60.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1152x864": 108.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1152x864"x75.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1024x768"x75.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "832x624": 57.3 MHz, 49.7 kHz, 74.6 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "832x624"x74.6   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "800x600": 49.5 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "800x600"x75.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0): *Default mode "640x480": 31.5 MHz, 37.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "640x480"x75.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz)
(**) VMWARE(0):  Default mode "1680x1050": 146.2 MHz, 65.3 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) VMWARE(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x60.0  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync (65.3 kHz)
[Snip...]
(==) VMWARE(0): DPI set to (96, 96)

[buddha]

I don't have the exact same problem, but when I installed F9 in a VirtualBox virtual machine, the login screen was too big. So here are some thoughts that might get you pointed toward a solution.

What I eventually figured out was that the physical screen size and DPI of the virtual monitor were not correct.

I would start by looking in the Xorg log for the physical dimensions, and then see what

xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
xdpyinfo | grep resolution

give you and if they make sense.

Then I'd try putting in a DisplaySize line in the Monitor section of your xorg.conf. Something like

DisplaySize 524 331

or whatever you calculate your virtual monitor physical dimensions should be.

[nissan.bakish]

try

# system-config-display --reconfig

Rgds

Nissan