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bsander
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 Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: How to rotate my screen orientation? |
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Hey all,
I'd like my notebook to be able to change the screen orientation so that it can rotate 90, 180 or 270 degrees. In KDE, I see a front end for this (Confg -> peripherals -> display -> orientation), but all options except "normal" are disabled there. also, when I execute xrandr I get the following:
| Code: | $ xrandr
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1024 x 768 ( 347mm x 260mm ) *0
1 800 x 600 ( 347mm x 260mm ) 0
2 640 x 480 ( 347mm x 260mm ) 0
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none |
So obviously it's not (yet) enabled. However, with the windows OS that came preinstalled with it (and that is now gone) I was able to change screen orientation, so it definately should be possible.
Could anybody give me some help on enabling this? I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks. |
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bsander
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| anybody? |
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cylgalad
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| It's just unsupported for your GC, that's a driver problem (definitively if you have a Geforce, for Radeon I don't know) |
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bsander
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| cylgalad wrote: | | It's just unsupported for your GC, that's a driver problem (definitively if you have a Geforce, for Radeon I don't know) |
It shouldn't be, because it was possible on windows. Or is it just not implemented yet? Is there a workaround possible? |
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zerwas
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:14 am Post subject: |
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If you really want a rotated screen (you will lose all your HW-Acceleration), you can try the following:
If you have a NVidia-card:
Add to /etc/X11/XF86Config:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "My NV Card"
Driver "nv"
Option "FlatPanel" "1" # don't know if this is necessary
Rotate "CW" # Clockwise Rotation (CCW for Counter-)
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If you have an ATI-card:
Add to /etc/X11/XF86Config:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "My ATI Card"
Driver "fbdev"
Rotate "CW" # Clockwise Rotation (CCW for Counter- or UD Upside-Down)
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Before you do that, watch the man-page for the Driver entry that is actually in "Driver" and search for "Rotate". For example: man mga
I am waiting for XDirectFB supporting Rotation/Pivoting, then i will have a fast surface.
I don't know why, but XRandR seems to have problems with most GCs
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zeR |
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bsander
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| zerwas wrote: | If you really want a rotated screen (you will lose all your HW-Acceleration), you can try the following:
If you have a NVidia-card:
Add to /etc/X11/XF86Config:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "My NV Card"
Driver "nv"
Option "FlatPanel" "1" # don't know if this is necessary
Rotate "CW" # Clockwise Rotation (CCW for Counter-)
...
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If you have an ATI-card:
Add to /etc/X11/XF86Config:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "My ATI Card"
Driver "fbdev"
Rotate "CW" # Clockwise Rotation (CCW for Counter- or UD Upside-Down)
...
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Before you do that, watch the man-page for the Driver entry that is actually in "Driver" and search for "Rotate". For example: man mga
I am waiting for XDirectFB supporting Rotation/Pivoting, then i will have a fast surface.
I don't know why, but XRandR seems to have problems with most GCs
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zeR |
Will this lrotate the screen when X starts up or will I be able to switch it whenever I want to? Because this looks to me like it's only being done at bootup..
Thnaks for the help anyway  |
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