[wplug] xrandr, screen pivot, and free drivers

[Bryon Gill]

It's a Samsung 173T actually.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Nathan Marcus wrote:

> Is the monitor a Samsung Syncmaster 910t?
>
>
> On 1/12/06, Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a monitor that can pivot 90 degrees so that you can view lots of text
>> vertically at once.  I also am using a Radeon 9200, which is the last of the ATI
>> cards for which there are fre 3d drivers available.  I wanted to be able to
>> rotate my screen using xrandr, but when I run it it tells me the only rotation
>> possible is "normal", and a little googling tells me that my driver doesn't
>> support rotation.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a free driver (2d is ok) that supports rotation?  I
>> understand that rotation is possible with the NVidia proprietary drivers but
>> I'd prefer to find a way to do this using only free software if possible.  I am
>> open to getting a new video card if there's no way to do it with the radeon.
>>
>> Bryon
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