[plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob

[J Michael Gilks]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:05, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> I have just decided to try out Ubuntu again and have installed 5.10 in
> a VMware session.
> Having got it working I decided to change the screen resolution and
> while doing so changed the refresh rate from 56 to 60. This all went
> well (including when it did the test) until I restarted the system.
> Now after logging on I get a screen full of subbish. I can log in with
> safe mode text console and am looking for where to change the settings
> back to default. Any hints, BTW, what is the default root PW?
>
This being installed in a VMWare type situation, the first thing to do would 
probably be to install VMWare tools. This tends to sort out all sorts of 
little problems as well as giving much better video and mouse performance.
As part of the tools install you will be asked which resolution you would like 
to use.
A problem doing this is that Ubuntu kernel is compiled using a different gcc 
to that which is installed by default.
There is a page explaining this and how to correctly compile the tools on the 
Ubuntu documentation site.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VmWare/InstallAsGuest?highlight=%28vmware%29


Hope this helps.

Love
Mike