Brad Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Gateway FPD2185W monitor that rotates from landscape to
> portrait. I have also recently installed Nevada B67 on a box with an
> Nvidia 6600 GT.
>
> I would like to know the best way to get the screen to rotate, and how
> to go about downloading, compiling, etc. Is the best option xrandr?
> I've seen some small bits about this on Alan Coopersmith's blog, but
> nothing recently that included status or instructions.
xrandr 1.1 is included in Nevada already (/usr/X11/bin/xrandr).
If the driver supports rotation at runtime, you'ld run something
like: xrandr -o left
xrandr -q should show the available resolutions and rotations for
the current system.
If the driver doesn't support runtime rotation (I don't remember
what the nvidia driver supports off the top of my head), the
fallback would be changing the configuration file and restarting
X everytime you want to rotate.
For nvidia cards, you can run nvidia-xconfig -rotate to automate
this.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
