Installing SXDE Build 64a in Parallels - Screen Resolution

The screen resolution is 1024x768 after the default installation. Need to change it to 1280x800 as the native resolution of the MacBook.

1. "cd /etc/X11"
2. "cp .xorg.conf xorg.conf"
3. "vi xorg.conf" so that

           Section "Monitor"
              ...
              UseModes "Modes0"
           EndSection
           Section "Screen"
              ...
              SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport 0 0
                 Depth 24
                 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
              EndSubSection
           EndSection
           Section "Modes"
              Identifier "Modes0"
              Modeline "1280x800" 104.3 280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 834 -Hsync +Vsync
           EndSection
   

Installing SXDE Build 64a in Parallels - Memory

Zillions of people have posted how to do this. The following are the steps I took to make it work. The setup:

• MacBook, Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, 1GB Ram
• Parallels 3.0 (Build 4128, June 9, 2007)
• Solaris Express Developer's Edition (SXDE) 5/07 Build 64a (Nevada + Sun Studio 12)

The SXDE installer quits if the memory is less than 768MB. My MacBook came with 1GB. And Parallels allows a max of only 604MB for Solaris 10 VM when I have only 1GB memory. Fortunately, in another experiment, I bought Kingston KVR667R2K2SO/2GR (1GBx2, PC5300 667MHz) which fits the specification of my MacBook. So I swapped them with the two 512MB DIMMs. Then I was able to create a VM of 1GB memory and install SXDE. The Kingston KVR667 did not work with MacBook very well and caused a panic after my installation. I swapped them out and put the old 512MBx2 in, and reset the memory of the VM to 604MB.