BT in VirtualBox

[Bodhi]

How do I get 1024x768 video resolution in the BT4r2 GUI in Sun's Virtual Box?

I have it in text mode and have 'fixed splash', but when I start the GUI it kicks down to 800x600. The host environment is Windows 7 with an ATI Radeon HD3200. I have looked at the KDE3 desktop files for a way to manually set the video mode but couldn't find anything. I have tried dedicating 32mb of video mem with 2d & 3d acceleration enabled in the VB guest environment, but it didn't help. I'm just tired of banging my head and would like to move on. Is there a way to set the video resolution in the startup command? Can someone help?

[sickness]

There is a small issue with VBox and the newest R2, try running this before you startx

/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all

See if that helps, if not before you enter x try:

fix-vesa

or

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Bodhi]

Thanks for the reply

I eventually zeroed in on the X system about 2 in the morning.

Xorg -configure

made the VB window pop out to 10x7 temporarily, but snapped back down to 8x6 after.
Added 10x7 video mode to xorg.conf.new and made the system puke, so removed it.
I finally got it with:

install -v -m644 -D ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Don't ask me how or why, but it's working now.

[sickness]

Glad you fixed it.