After installing Ubuntu, I've noticed that the display was stretched to the size of my screen (HP Pavilion dv5000 series). All fonts, pictures and UI elements were spread horizontally and the display wasn't sharp.
I tried to change to screen resolution inside Ubuntu to fit my widescreen (1280X800) but the maximal available resolution set was 1024X768. Strange, it was like it didn't recognize my screen abilites or couldn't detect the graphical card accurately.
Searching the web (and after disqualifying some registery changes as one techie was advised. In principal, "registery games" are definitely last solution) I managed to fix the problem by installing VMware Tools.
VMware Tools are a set of components that installed inside the guest OS and operates in cooperation with the VMware Workstation. These components allows us enhanced configuration control over the guest OS, which one of them is the ability to determine an exact required screen resolution.
As I found VMware Tools is not such an easy to install in Ubuntu, I searched for some help, and found this superb "how to" post written by Khairul Faizi: Click Here.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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