I have installed Gutsy, and the normal and remix of Hardy each in virtual machines, and the only one that will actually let me change the graphics options is Gutsy, by going into "Administration Mode..." in the system settings. In Hardy (non-remixed) the administrator mode is broken and reverts to normal about 2 seconds after entering the password it requests. In the remix with KDE4 there simply is nowhere I can find to tell it what graphics hardware I want to use (as it's a virtual machine, I need to tell it I have an LCD capable of supporting 1280x1024 as it won't detect it). Can anybody explain how I can change this? I'm familiar(ish) with BASH, and I was messing with xorg.conf, though I can't seem to get it set right... each time I modify xorg.conf I end up breaking it, and reverting to a previous snapshot on the virtual box.
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Re: Changing Graphics Options
In Virtual Machines the guest OS is not able to communicate directly with the underlying graphics hardware, as far as I know. It certainly cannot in VMWare Player -- if you check the graphics system with the guest OS it reports some generic VGA-compatible that is unrelated to the real GPU.
If you want to explore the actual graphics capability of Linux on your graphics hardware, I'm afraid you will have to actually install it, or at least configure it in a Live CD session.
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Re: Changing Graphics Options
With VirtualBox that is true. There is an option pack you can install in the virtual machine that helps with display size and other misc things. That package is Guest Options. Once installed you do have to manually configure X
. You still only see what the virtual software has set as a "system" which is isolated from your Host system and reports as such.
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