Re: VESA RandR

Alex Deucher <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:27:58 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:19:34 -0500, Dustin Machi <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a Trident card.  I know that with some of the chipsets that I can turn
> on rotation in xorg.conf before starting X, but that isn't what I want to do.
> Since this laptop has the ability to pivot its screen, it can be in either
> laptop mode or slate mode...but for that to make sense I need to rotate on
> the fly (no X restart).  I'm not really too concerned about accelleration.
> So should the Vesa randr work?
> 
> 

no xorg servers support rotation.  some of the kdrive servers do.  I
don't know about the trident kdrive server, but I doubt it.

Alex