Greetings,
My
problem:
I am in the process
of turning an old laptop into a picture frame, however I'm running into one
particularly confusing roadblock pertaining to the rotate option. In my
XF86config file I have specified that I'd like my screen rotated. The
computer correctly rotates the screen, however the viewport (don't know if this
is correct terminology) is still set to the origenal layout. All of the
text and various widgets of the Gui are properly rotated, however there is a 200
pixel space of general garbage about 600 pixels down from the new top left
corner. When I move the mouse right and left to the extents of the screen
it scrolls back and forth as if to give me my full 800x600 resolution.
Essentially my desktop area is 800x600 while my physical screen geometry (after
being turned) is 600x800. I need somehow to make the computer realize that
the 800 is now the vertical and the 600 is the horizontal.
Things I've tried
that didn't work:
I then changed the
resolution to 600x800 hoping it would solve the problem, however this setting
was apparently not valid as I got no picture at all.
System
specs:
Fedora Core
1
Neomagic 128
graphics chip
XF86
4.3
Thanks, Phil
Howard
