[Spice-devel] 2K/4K resolutions not available?

[Mike]

Hi Christophe,

	I installed Debian Testing and interestingly enough the higher 
resolutions appear in the available resolution dropdown box, so we can 
just pick the one we want and everything worked fine, even without the 
spice agent installed and mucking about with dynamic resizing (which we 
aren't interested in anyways).

Using Debian going forward may be the path of least resistance given 
that Ubuntu doesn't seem too receptive to updating QXL anytime soon (I 
have posted a bug report, but I noticed there were several outstanding 
for over a year).

Thanks for your help.

On 06/15/2015 01:50 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:48:56AM -0700, Mike wrote:
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> 	I fired up a Fedora 22 live CD and it does change the guest resolution when
>> I resize the window, but only larger, it doesn't resize it smaller for some
>> reason.
>>
>> When comparing the package versions between Fedora and Ubuntu, the
>> spice-client/spice-vdagent versions match, but it appears that Fedora 22
>> uses xorg-x11-drv-qxl v0.1.3-2 and Ubuntu uses xserver-xorg-video-qxl
>> v0.1.1-0ubuntu6. So I'm guessing that may be the issue...
>>
>> I will see if I can get Ubuntu upgraded to the latest version to confirm for
>> sure.
>
> Yes would be nice (there's a 0.1.4 version as well), for now you could
> try to make a local build of this new version, or get someone to build
> that for you (potentially in a ppa). Debian has 0.1.4 in its unstable
> repository, maybe their source package can be used for a rebuild on the
> ubuntu version you need.
>
> Christophe
>

-- 
Mike