Installing under Microsoft Virtual PC

[Somnonaut]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:48:31 -0700, Somnonaut <somnonaut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:31:18 -0700, Craig Snively <craig at windstream.com> wrote:
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> > Has anybody successfully installed under MS VPC? I just tried it, and it
> > seemed to go thru the install correctly, but when it boots up for the login,
> > I get an 'extended screen', that shows me the first 3 letters of UBU in very
> > large type, and I assume the rest is there somewhere, but I can't see it. I
> > also don't get to see a login, although as I said I assume I'm there. Any
> > suggestions? And I don't have another machine to run the software on, and I
> > don't want to repartition my harddrive at this time, I only want to see if I
> > like the software first.
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> > Thanks for the help.
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> > Craig Snively 
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> I'm getting exactly the same situation. "Widescreen" with distorted
> letters, and no response when clicking, keyboard input, etc. I tried
> re-installing and selecting only 640x480 in the X setup, with no
> change. Doesn't seem like changing the display settings within Virtual
> PC works either.
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> Have you had any more luck?
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It's working now. Shame on me (us) for not Googling more extensively.
Once X loads and you have that ugly screen, bring up another virtual
console with Ctrl+Alt+F1...6 (it may take a minute to come up).

Then do "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"

Pick a really low resolution and color depth (right now it's working
for me at 640x480 and 8bits depth...haven't tried higher settings
yet). I also didn't use the kernel framebuffer. Worked for me.