Bug 15067

Summary:	drakx11: Changing display size fails in VMWare
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jan Pihlgren <jan>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-1.4-1.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jan Pihlgren 2015-01-17 06:01:44 CET

I'm running VMware Workstation 10.0.4 build-2249910
Description of problem:
Open MCC - Hardware - Display changing will fail

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 5 Beta 2

How reproducible:
Choose a different size of display

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open MCC
2. Choose Harware
3. Choose Display changing
4. Change size of the display (from default 800x600 to what you want)
5. Accept
6. Restart
Result: no changing

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jan Pihlgren 2015-01-17 07:15:05 CET

In VirtualBox (4.3.20) everything works as expected, no errors

Comment 2 David Walser 2015-01-17 20:29:01 CET

I haven't tried playing with the resolution in MCC, but I'll have to try that when I'm back at work.  Have you tried kscreen?  ("kcmshell4 kscreen" in a terminal is one easy way to run it)  Maybe MCC isn't able to change to what you want because the resolution you chose just isn't accepted anymore.  You might be seeing the same problem that I reported in Bug 14974.

CC: (none) => luigiwalser

David Walser 2015-01-17 20:30:33 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Summary: Changing display size fail => drakx11: Changing display size fails in VMWare
Source RPM: Mageia Controll Center - hardware - displaysettings => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-1.4-1.mga5.src.rpm

Comment 3 Jan Pihlgren 2015-01-18 03:04:56 CET

David
Your suggestion help me. Thanks. It looks like that the sizes supported is for
16:9 relations not for the old 5:4 relation.

Comment 4 David Walser 2015-01-27 00:18:43 CET

If you change the Monitor setting to something other than the 1024x768 that's probably already selected, you get more resolutions available (still not quite exactly what was available before).  But switching it to Plug'n'play or 1280x1024 gets this to a point where it's clear that drakx11 is still working.  All drakx11 does is write /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  After that, it's up to X to work correctly.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME

Comment 5 Jan Pihlgren 2015-02-14 07:57:43 CET

The error persist in Mageia 5 Beta 3