Rotate extension

Matthew Allum mallum@jamthebox.org
Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:17:22 +0000


What server are you running ? It should work with Xfbdev at least.

  -- Matthew

on Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:37:31PM +1100, Chris Debenham wrote:
> I am running X on a Toshiba M200 tablet which has the funky ability to 
> change from tablet to normal laptop format.
> In doing this I need to rotate the screen 90 degrees.
> Currently I have to restart the Xserver to do this but it would be 
> better if it was possible to rotate on the fly.
> I know that the XFree86 server doesn't support rotate yet, but the 
> freedesktop server seems to. I tried it out but every time I rotate the 
> screen it goes black then freezes (no local keyboard input accepted, 
> remote access still available)
> 
> Is this meant to work, or is it not implemented fully yet?
> 
> Thanks
> 	Chris Debenham
> 
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