Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Jim Klimov
17 апреля 2014 г. 21:11:20 CEST, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com пишет: A little off topic because of running as guest in vbox on windows 7 64bit. I've done two installs of oi -b 151_a8. Both since updated to 151_9, but the phenomena was there right from the start. Once the install is over

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
I have exactly the same question. OI allows me to select maximum resolution of 1024x768 only. LCD monitor has slightly better resolution (1152x1024?). The monitor has a VGA connector, and videocard has a DVI. I believe that my videocard is capable of supporting much higher resolutions than

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Dmitry Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com writes: I have exactly the same question. OI allows me to select maximum resolution of 1024x768 only. LCD monitor has slightly better resolution (1152x1024?). The monitor has a VGA connector, and videocard has a DVI. I believe that my videocard is capable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru writes: [...] And given that i am not a kernel/driver developer and in the end a computer and its OS are tools to get the official job done... well... i'd rather have to use whatever works and does not impede my job. Even though a native oi might be more suitable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Jim Klimov
18 апреля 2014 г. 17:28:46 CEST, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com пишет: Dmitry Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com writes: I have exactly the same question. OI allows me to select maximum resolution of 1024x768 only. LCD monitor has slightly better resolution (1152x1024?). The monitor has a VGA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Jim Klimov writes: 18 апреля 2014 г. 17:28:46 CEST, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com пишет: A small note on version: It is a total pain in the neck to discover what version of guest additions is running. I never did get it figured out. I found nifty commands on linux that will show it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Harry Putnam writes: I've often wondered why the console of OI has never been developed beyond about 1990s. It is more primitive still than my first forays into linux around 1996. The linux console has developed a good bit since then and can be a serious env for serious work... where as the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Sorry if my question was misleading. The original post by Harry Putnam was regarding a vbox vm. My question though is about bare metal server. But the question is the same: How to get higher screen resolution? OI limits me to 1024x768 for some reason, while nVidia card can give more.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW I'm running OI 151a8 at 1200x1600 portrait mode using the nVidia driver. I suspect that the real issue is whether the installer recognizes the graphics card. I make a point of keeping xorg.conf files for my systems on a USB flash drive for easy access when this happens.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] RESOLVED Re: Moving an OI zone between servers (fwd)

2014-04-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Jim Klimov wrote: What i meant regarding zoned=off was actually that you set this and then mount manually by either 'mount -F zfs' (for legacy) or 'zfs mount' (for others). Yes, that is what I did. It is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Identical Installs but different screen Res

2014-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru writes: [...] modinfo | grep box [...] v...@bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) writes: Jim Klimov writes: 18 апреля 2014 г. 17:28:46 CEST, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com пишет: A small note on version: It is a total pain in the neck to discover what version of