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    Setting Screen Resolution to 1024 x 768 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtual Machine

    If you using Redhat Enterprise Linux on a vmware console than you can change the resolution of the console running Linux according to your need by simply editing the configuration file  xorg.conf . You can find more about Vmware in my previous post here. Installing Rhel5 on Vmware here.

    Although when you run the vmware-tools script it makes all the necessary changes for you. But if you need to change the screen resolution to more than “800×600″ , you need to do it manually by editing the configuration file. To change the resolution simply follow the steps:

    • open the configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf mode and make sure you have included 1024 x 768 mode as shown below

    ——————————————
    Section “Screen”

    Identifier “Screen0″

    Device “Videocard0″

    Monitor “Monitor0″

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection “Display”

    Viewport 0 0

    Depth 24

    Modes “1024×768″

    EndSubSection

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    # vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    Configuration file for screen resolution of vmware in Linux

    You should have configuration file now as shown in above screenshot. Than save it and exit.

    • You need to restart the X server. To do this simply press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or log out and login in again.
    • Now you can change the resolution of screen by simply switching to full screen mode.

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    posted by:
    thanhdc
    date:
    Nov 15, 2011 (a Tuesday)
    time:
    11:00:28 (3 months ago)