on 16/05/05 10:27, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1: monitor rotation is built in to the monitor preference panel - if
your video card supports it!!! WOW to the power of 2 - I'm defiantly
going to buy a VESA arm that supports rotation and the VESA adaptor
kit for my Apple 20" display
This sounds great but how can you tell if a video card supports this?
For example - a new G5 iMac - I seem to recall there is a hack to get the
iMac to supports 2 displays rather than just video mirroring - if so, under
Tiger, would you then be able to connect say one of the NEC monitors
advertised in Aust Macworld which offer portrait/landscape viewing.
Having enjoyed using the Radius Pivot Displays (with 68030 IIci running OS6
then OS7 around 12 years ago) I've really missed the pivoting monitors! - I
really thought the flat panel G4 iMac design would have been ideally suited
to a pivot somewhere in the chrome arm support :(
If you are running 10.4 and have an external monitor plugged in (no
official support for internal monitor rotation) then in the Monitors
system preferences there will be a pull down item saying something
like "rotate" with 90 180, 270 deg options. (sorry haven't upgraded
my work computer so can't see the exact details here but it
definitely works on the external monitor on my 1Ghz G4 TiBook.
My guess is anything with DVI connectors should support this though
available resolutions probably depend on the model of card - on mine
there is nothing to support the full 1152x 870 or 1280x1024 (or
should that now be 870x1152 and 1024x1280?) resolutions on my Apple
20" Multiscan CRT when rotated though they are supported in normal
landscape orientation- hanging to get my hands on my 20" Apple LCD
(which should be some time this week) to see supported resolutions
but I'm sure others on the list have this model monitor and can test
the available resolutions in rotated mode.
Aparently some one (or so some rumor sites say) has worked out how to
do this with a PowerBook's internal display and was/is working on
how to have the motion sensor in the Al-PowerBooks sense the
orientation and change it automatically.
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