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Description
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After installation of a Solaris 10 guest within Vmware's ESX or Workstation product Solaris 10's Xorg comes up in 640x480. VMware has found that if they use /usr/X11/bin/xorgconfig to configure the X server (see http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/self_help.jsp under "To configure the Xorg server") they can get to any specified resolution. By default there appears to be no Xorg.conf file after Solaris 10 installation so the guest is defaulting to the lowest resolution, 640x480.
Justification: This is a major "out of the box" problem for *all* Solaris users using VMware. Without a fix for this Solaris is close to unusable in the VMware environment.
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The following is an email from Alan Coopersmith (Sun Xorg lead) to Andy and I that provides a bit more information:
"I suggested that integrating to Xorg was the simplest and best solution, but it's not the only one. Your Sun contacts should be able to file a bug, include the patch, and request it's inclusion in an upcoming Solaris 10 patch and/or update release.
(And I don't know of any Linux distros that run xorgconfig - they all seem to have custom/proprietary xorg GUI config tools, not the ancient command line xorgconfig tool. We have no plans of forcing that horrible thing on our users, but we are looking into other ways to improve our configuration experience.)
-Alan Coopersmith- xxxxx@xxxxx.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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Moved verification note to Comments section.
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