Recommendations for Flat Panel Pivot Software

[jakatz]

I am in the midst of deploying an office full of Dell 1905FP monitors. Very nice units I must say, but surprisingly, although they have the ability to rotate 90 degrees (from landscape to portrait and back again), unfortunately they did not come with software to enable this feature (which I was surprised about) - anyone have any recommendations on software to enable this feature?

 

[paparazi]

jakatz
This function is integrated into both Nvidia Detonator and ATI Catalyst video drivers.
So any machine installed with a modern Nvidia or ATI card can rotate it's screen image.

I am also guessing many other integrated video chipsets may also have this function as part of driver features and if they don't at present it might be worth upgrading their VGA drivers from the respective chipset manufacturers website.

Martin

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[felixc]

The ability to support pivot monitors involves hardware inside of the graphics chip, as the axes are swapped. It all depends on the graphics chips used in your machines. You have to verify for driver support. Like Martin says, check on the manufacturer's web site for the latest driver versions. There used to be software apps that were doing the x-y translation in software, for machines that did not supported it in hardware or in their drivers. If operations like scroll are slower than usual, it is because the function is done in software. Video apps may not work either.

Unless you are equipped with similar machines everywhere with cards that do support pivoting in their drivers, it may end up being a nightmare.