portrait mode monitor

[Tyler Aviss]

I believe that there are also "framebuffer" X drivers. I remember
using one in days past, but I ended up going with a straight X driver
because the FB driver for my via chipset kinda sucked anyways.


On Nov 16, 2007 7:59 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 04:47:05PM -0500, Interlug Lists wrote:
> > I'm messing with my monitor setup.  I've been running dual-head for a
> > while and like it.  Now I'm messing with quad-head, and have the
> > basics working.  As part of my fooling around with this stuff I'd like
> > to get the monitors to work in portrait mode.  That is, with the long
> > axis of the monitor vertical.  Mechanically, this s not a problem, but
> > I'm not having any luck with the video driver / configuration for
> > this.
> >
> > Any tips on getting portrait mode to work?  Am I limited to specific
> > drivers / resolutions / specialty cards / invocations and sacrifices?
> >
> > My video cards are ATI radeons:
> > #0 and #1 agp
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]
> >
> > #2 and #3 pci
> >
> > 02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100
> > QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> >
> > Double bonus points to anybody who can point me towards the way to get
> > CONSOLE / non GUI mode working in portrait mode as well.  ;-)
>
> If you use a framebuffer driver for the console, then you can in fact
> rotate it.
>
> See http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=642 for example.
>
> It mentions something about
> Kernel boot options video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=794 fbcon=rotate:3
>
> Of course that means using vesa and then running X on the fbdev which
> would be quite a bit slower most likely.
>
> How many monitors are you using and what resolution are they and which
> ones do you want rotated?
>
> By the looks of things the ati binary drivers don't have rotation
> support (among the many others things they don't do either).
>
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> Len Sorensen
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