Rotate extension

[Alex Deucher]

--- Matthew Allum <mallum@jamthebox.org> wrote:
> What server are you running ? It should work with Xfbdev at least.
> 

Also, if the Xfbdev here is based on the one from xfree86, I think
rotation doesn't work at 24 bpp.  there was a bug related to this and
some other rotation problems recently discussed on the devel list.

Alex


>   -- 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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