X screen rotation 1

[zeland]

Is it possible to rotate X display 90 degs so that it displays in portrait mode rather the our usual landscape mode?


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[jstreich]

I don't believe it is.

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[zeland]

After some searching, I found a site that mentions Option "Rotate" "DEGREE" under Xfree86. I assume DEGREE is to be replaced with a rotation degree such as 90 or 180. I tried this under xorg but to no avail.


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[stefanwagner]

Well - I guess it is possible.
At least I 've seen an auto-rotating screen on a linux-pda.
Tablet-PC need this as well.
But I don't have further information - sorry.

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[jstreich]

Option "Rotate" "CCW"

Ah! Found it in use in a sample. Device section of the graphics card... wonder if it's graphics card dependent. CCW or CW are DEGREE I think.

Heres what I found:

http://groundstate.ca/files/xorg.conf.txt

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[zeland]

So, the values were CW & CCW and not 90/-90/270. I tried your suggestion on a system with an nvidia card but it didn't work. I was confused at first. Later, I tried again with an old junk in the corner of my room that has a S3 Virge in it. Lo and behold, it WORKED (kind of). My monitor is now turned on it's side with 1/3 of the bottom part of the screen being blank, and another 1/3 off screen which can be panned to. Like 1024x768 screen on a 768x1024 monitor. I tried on anohter machine but with a S3 Trio with same results. About an hour of mucking around later, I found out that the Rotate option doesn't seem to work with the "nvidia" driver but works fine with the "nv" driver.


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[jstreich]

Oh, that's a tough one... nv doesn't have hardware acceleration support... nvidia is made by NVidia and supports all kinds of nice features. I'm forced to use nv because of my TV card -- I can't find the scource package for the kernel I'm running and ivtv (TV card driver)is very picky about which kernel version... lo and behold, I can't install the nvidia divers.

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[chipperMDW]

Need... open spec... video cards...

 

[jstreich]

I know chipperMDW, but I had 2 NVIDIA cards laying arround... I wanted a dual head Linux box... So, I used what I had. I looked quite a bit before settling on the tv card, but the best supported TV card for linux (acording to a number of searches on the subject) was a closed card as well. It all works, except hardware acceleration... Which means no Quake III... because it runs WAY too slow.

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