Low resolution on guest (Ubuntu 10.10) after upgrading to Player 3.1.3

[Micke_O]

I upgraded to Player 3.1.3 today.

Upgrading VMware Tools for a Vista 32 guest was no problems.

Upgrading VMware Tools for a Ubuntu 64 caused some problems since the installation of VMware Tools says:

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Detected Xorg X server version 1.9.0.

Distribution provided drivers for Xorg X server are used.

Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included.

Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic

vmware-tools start/running

The configuration of VMware Tools 8.4.5 build-324285 for Linux for this running

kernel completed successfully.

You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take

effect.

You can now run VMware Tools by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd" from the

command line or by invoking "/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox" from the command line

during an X server session.

To enable advanced X features (e.g., guest resolution fit, drag and drop, and

file and text copy/paste), you will need to do one (or more) of the following:

1. Manually start /usr/bin/vmware-user

2. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and,

3. Restart your X session.

Enjoy,

--the VMware team

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Now I'm only able to run resolutions up to 1280x720 on the guest

Does anyone have a suggestion how to solve it?

[Oldie123]

rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf.BeforeVMwareToolsInstall to xorg.conf

restart

[Micke_O]

The file xorg.conf doesn't exist I found some kind of example file with that name in a completely different path but it was almost empty and was referring to some "noveu-whatever".

Reverted to 3.1.2 this morning and reinstalled VMware Tools on the Ubuntu guest but the problem remains. Maybe it has something to do with Ubuntu, or a patch installed after I installed VMware Tools on it last time.

[beoale]

I have the very same problem.

After updating to player 3.1.3 the max screen resolution of the guest is 1280x720. My host is Win7 and the guest is ubuntu 10.10.

Unity does not start because the resolution can't be changed.

Before the upgrade when I maximized the window of the guest, X was resized; after the upgrade it remains of the same size in a full scrren window surrounded by black stripes.

I have updated the vmware tools and tried manually setting the resolution of the screen to 1680x1050 (in *.vmx) but the maximum available size of the display is still 1280x720.

[abouch]

This is the same problem being reported here...

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1521695

and

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1650525

[abouch · Accepted solution]

Try...

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-vmware

followed by...

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vmware

Then log out and log back in again.

[beoale]

Removing and reinstalling xserver-xorg-video-vmware fixed the problem for me.

Thank you abouch

[Micke_O]

I ended up downgrading VMware Player and reinstalling the guest but since the fix suggested by "abouch" worked for "beoale" I think we can assume it would have helped me too. Thanks!

[tom-wk]

@abouch:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-vmware followed by... sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vmware Then log out and log back in again.

Worked for me! Thank you!

[ShadeAnalyzer]

Did this, and it solved the problem. Thanks!

Is there something I could have/should have done to avoid the problem in the first place?

I did update Ubuntu to 10.10 and most-recent Player and tools all at nearly the same time. I'm not sure if that should help or hurt

[Philh42]

Thanks a million for this fix!  I just used synaptic package manager and asked for a re-install.

[nhoover55]

Now it's October, 2011 and I just upgraded to Player 4.0. First time I rebooted after installing the new tools - same problem. Resolution limited to 1280x720. Same fix recommended above worked. Thanks so much for posting.