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only have 800x600 resolution

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jonin
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only have 800x600 resolution

#1 Post by jonin »

hi guys

got an acer aspire one zg8
running debian in a vmware enviroment
i only have 800x600 and cant change resolution
do i need to install linux drivers for intel 945 express vga card?
i googled for drivers for vga card but linux
and there were linux drivers,but it said linux 4
trying to get into linux...please guide me

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Re: only have 800x600 resolution

#2 Post by stevepusser »

I think vmware provides a virtual video driver, Debian can't see the real hardware from inside the VM. You may have to compile a driver in the Debian guest to allow it to use the vmware driver, like Virtual Box has you do; check the vmware help or documents.
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