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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Liam R E Quin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liam@holoweb.net">liam@holoweb.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Robins wrote:<br>
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> On 12/29/2011 02:34 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:<br>
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> > Also, neither that nor the ATI radion X1300 card in my desktop detected<br>
> > when I rotated the monitor in Linux, or if they did (more likely), they<br>
> > didn't act on it.<br>
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<div class="im">> Do you mean that they didn't automatically detect when you physically<br>
> rotated the screen or whether they ignored the settings in Xorg.conf?<br>
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</div>I mean that I was working in portrait mode, then, with X running,<br>
rotated the display to landscape mode, and the displayed pixels did not<br>
change, so that e.g. menus and applications were now sideways.<br> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I then used xrandr on the system with the ATI card; I forget what I did<br>
on the laptop with an nvidia card. The result was a loss of<br>
acceleration. I did not edit xorg.conf at all.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Liam<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><div>Does rotating the screen work in Windows? </div><div><br></div><div>This sounds like something that isn't supported via the DVI/VGA cables or a problem with support in the proprietary drivers.</div>
<div>The drivers could probably do the rotations, they just never got the proper signal. Having "Xinerama" enabled for the AMD </div><div>drivers really restricts what options you have, but duasl monitors didn't work with AMD's driver any other way.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--Jeff</div>
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