I have recently downloaded Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 32-bit and I created a virtual machine using Microsoft Virtual PC (the old one, not the Windows Virtual PC) in order to test it. I did that since my host is an old Pentium 4 PC running Windows XP with only 1GB RAM, so I think Microsoft Virtual PC is the lightest among Oracle Virtualbox and VMWare. I could only give the guest about 360MB. It Works, albeit a little slow. My main problem (apart from speed) is that the virtual graphics hardware is not recognised and I am stuck at 800x600 resolution making use of some applications difficult (buttons not showing etc). I know from Windows that the virtual card is S3, but there are no virtual additions (drivers etc) for Linux and the Ubuntu build-in driver is installed but not used as the hardware is not recognized.
How can I force Ubuntu use specific drivers for the graphics? I know that in a Windows system I would go to Device Manager and manually force/install the S3 graphics driver and would hopefully work. I have done it many times in real PCs with some weird ATI models and it worked. Is there something similar in Ubuntu 32-bit? If this involves the terminal, please give me all the code to copy-paste as I am not familiar with Linux.
Thank you in advance!
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