Rotate extension

[Chris Debenham]

I have tried the XVesa server at 100x1050x24, I'll try it with Xfbdev 
and also at 16bit

Chris

Alex Deucher wrote:
> --- 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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