Shaun Jackman wrote:
On 5/6/05, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Shaun Jackman wrote:
All the options of the "Orientation (degrees clockwise)" setting of
the "Configure Display" dialog are greyed out except for "Normal". I
have a landscape/portrait display and would like to set it to "Left
(90 degrees)". Where can I start troubleshooting to find out why these
options are greyed out?
If you have an actual landscape/portrait display, this option isn't
going to do it. A monitor that allows you to rotate the screen in the
stand is not really a landscape/portrait display.
OK. I was talking about the latter.
IAC, it is not your display that you configure, it is your video card
that needs to be configured. I suspect that the ability to use the
simulated portrait display mode (Vertical raster scanning) is dependent
on which video card driver you are using. And in the unlikely event
that you actually have true portrait display, you would require a video
card that would support it.
It seems to me that it's only the X server that needs to change where
it puts its pixels. From the video card's point of view, it's still
displaying a simple picture of 1600x1200 pixels.
To trouble shoot, you should check to see that you have the Randr
extension enabled.
xdpyinfo | grep RANDR
$ xdpyinfo | grep RANDR
RANDR
Ok, now run:
xrandr
and see what it says for "Rotations possible".
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JRT
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