[wplug] xrandr, screen pivot, and free drivers

[Nathan Marcus]

Ah, there was some sort of hardware type rotation on the 910t.  Then I
just reset the resolution to fit it.

Used to use one.  Not really sure how to pivot without that nifty
feature...  Anybody else up to bat?

On 1/12/06, Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
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