Install Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on Windows XP with QEMU

Step 9 XORG CONFIGURATION

As the default size of the X screen is a bit too small, we can modify the X.org configuration to have some biggest resolutions, additionally we will also configure the wheel buttons for the mouse (as this is not detected).

Use a text editor to modify the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Before Device; insert the following section:

Section "Monitor"  Identifier "Monitor0"  HorizSync 31.5 - 95.0  VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0EndSection

In the Screen section, between Device and DefaultDepth, add this line:

  Monitor "Monitor0" 

Finally, in subsection Display add this list:

  Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" 

Now for the mouse, in subsection Input Device "VMMouse"€ add this:

  Option      "Protocol" "Auto"  Option      "Buttons" "5"  Option      "ZAxisMapping "4 5"

The final xorg.conf file should be like this one (except in Input Device "Keyboard0" which depends on the keyboard chosen in anaconda -€“ see 5.2):

Section "ServerLayout"        Identifier     "Default Layout"        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"        InputDevice    "VMMouse" "CorePointer"EndSectionSection "InputDevice"        Identifier  "Keyboard0"        Driver      "kbd"        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"        Option      "XkbLayout" "fr"        Option      "XkbVariant" "latin9"EndSectionSection "InputDevice"        Identifier  "VMMouse"        Driver      "vmmouse"        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"        Option      "Protocol" "Auto"        Option      "Buttons" "5"        Option      "ZAxisMapping” "4 5"EndSectionSection "Monitor"        Identifier "Monitor0"        HorizSync 31.5 - 95.0        VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0EndSectionSection "Device"        Identifier  "Videocard0"        Driver      "cirrus"EndSectionSection "Screen"        Identifier "Screen0"        Device     "Videocard0"        Monitor     "Monitor0"        DefaultDepth     24        SubSection "Display"                Viewport   0 0                Depth     24                Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480"        EndSubSectionEndSection

Log off and reconnect to see the new graphical screen. Note that the poor emulated graphic card has only 4 Mbytes of RAM an cannot reach higher resolutions (this value in confirmed by reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log :

(--) CIRRUS(0): VideoRAM: 4096 kByte

Check the screen dump after the update (in the last image), and compare with the one in step 8 (the second image).