Fix screen resolution for BackTrack VM under VirtualBox

 Revisions: 20110521 - Revised to show the fix for BT5 

On BT5

The following worked with no fuss:

# Xorg -configure
# cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# startx

And that’s it!

On BT4
Note to self.  To fix the screen resolution for X on a host running BackTrack on VirtualBox…
Modify the “Screen” section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to read as follows:

Section "Screen"
Identifier           "Default Screen"
Monitor             "Configured Monitor"
Device               "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth     24
SubSection "Display"
Depth    24
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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