On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:25 AM, James Le Cuirot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:07 +0000 > Alan Hourihane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 22:25 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: >> > I have an old tablet with a Trident card. A long standing problem >> > has been that you cannot rotate the screen with xrandr. It can only >> > be done through xorg.conf and thus requires a restart. The error >> > you get is this. >> >> The trident driver doesn't support the new driver interfaces to >> support RandR and would need some re-writing to do this. > > That's probably beyond me, which is a shame. Out of curiosity, I'd still > like to know where this is handled in the other drivers though.
It's handled by the core xrandr code in the xserver. If the driver support xrandr 1.2+, they get support for rotation automatically. If the driver support accelerated render transforms, the rotation is accelerated. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
