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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat X Server won't start (Redhat 9) HELP Post 302191305 by fabtagon on Friday 2nd of May 2008 06:53:43 AM
Old 05-02-2008
Why don't you make a copy of your xorg.conf before modifiing it if you are unsure? I assume you'll find just a lot of pages explaining how to change resolution in VMware/Linux guest OS.

Google for something like "create configure xorg.conf" if you really can't remember what you've changed.
 

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vmware

VMWARE(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 VMWARE(4)

NAME

       vmware - VMware SVGA video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "vmware"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       vmware is an Xorg driver for VMware virtual video cards.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.	This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

       The driver auto-detects the version of any virtual VMware SVGA adapter.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable the HW cursor.	Default: off.

       Option "Xinerama" "boolean"
	      Disable or enable Xinerama support. Default: xinerama is enabled if the hardware supports it.

       Option "StaticXinerama" "string"
	      Provide  a  static  xinerama  geometry  that  will be active at server startup and will not be overridden at runtime.  The format is
	      "Width1xHeight1+Xoffset1+Yoffset1;Width2xHeight2+Xoffset2+Yoffset2" and so on. Negative offsets are not supported.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS

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