Changing the screen resolution on 12.04

Question

I am running 12.04 within Parallels 7 on an 11" MacBook Air.

I'm trying to set the display resolution to the native 1366 x 768 but Ubuntu doesn't list this as an option. How can I add the correct resolution to the options?

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.html — Raja G, May 25 '12 at 08:06
See also [this question](http://askubuntu.com/questions/12578/adjusting-display-geometry-in-a-virtual-machine). I made a comment to my answer regarding setting the geometry from EFI BIOS. This may help. — Takkat, May 25 '12 at 08:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 17 '13 at 22:07

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In a terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Search for the line with quiet splash, and change it to quiet splash nomodeset. Save the file.
Then:

sudo update-grub

Reboot your VM.

In most of the cases this will help.

edited Apr 17 '13 at 22:07

Basharat Sialvi

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answered May 25 '12 at 14:14

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That should be "quiet splash" instead of "quiet spasch". – r.bitter Aug 29 '12 at 13:56
This did not work for me. But this answer did: http://askubuntu.com/a/256269/1574 – Daryl Spitzer Apr 17 '13 at 22:30

Changing the screen resolution on 12.04

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