<quote who="Visser, Martin"> > I'm thinking of buying a pivot type LCD monitor (you can rotate the > monitor from landscape to portrait mode), a HP L1730 in fact. Does any > know whether these only work with certain graphics cards? And is there a > signal that is sent from the monitor that alerts the card that it's mode > is changed (from 1280x1024 to 1024x768 I guess)? How does this work with > XFree86? > > I have googled for info on this, but nothing of substance seems to come > up. Hopefully someone out there groks displays and X enough to know the > answer to this.
You will generally only need software support for this, via the relatively new RANDR (rotate and resize) extension. I don't think it supports rotate with every video driver, however, so you may want to investigate that. - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ "Slashdot seems to run a lot of obituaries. Perhaps there should be a topic for it." "There already is. It's called the BSD section." - Anonymous Coward -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
