[Qemu-devel] How to get 1280x1024 display from guest running Xorg?

[Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org>]

This has been driving me mad! I have just installed Solaris 10 under Qemu and 
specified the Xorg server to be used. I created xorg.conf with xorgconfig and 
X started fine at 1024x768 using the Cirrus driver. When I edited xorg.conf 
to specify a 1280x1024 display, the Xorg.0.log file showed "no mode". Now, I 
have both Win XP and Plan 9 running at 1280x1024, so I booted up XP and poked 
around the "Display/Settings" dialog and determined XP was running the 
display at 1280x1024 at 43Hz interlaced and 16 bit colour. So, using the 
handy http://xtiming.sourceforge.net site, I generated a mode line like XP's 
and added it to the xorg.conf file. X refused the interlaced mode so I tried 
an uninterlaced one at 43Hz. That kind of worked but only rendered half the 
screen! Everything else I tried got rejected as "bad mode...". 

So does someone have a magic modeline or xorg.conf to get Xorg going in a 
guest at high-res? There's another guy on the Linux-under-Qemu forum with the 
same problem hosting Ubuntu. I am using qemu 0.9, FWIW.

TIA
-Robin.
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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