Getting Rotation to work on a tablet?
 

Hello all-

I've got FC5 installed on my Toshiba Portege 3500. My setup notes are here: http://www.wavepacket.net/tomva/wl-011-tablet.html

Other than some issues with the Toshiba's proprietary DVDROM setup, it was a pretty painless install. FC5 works fine, the XServer has done well with the LCD monitor, and the pen works great.

However, screen rotation doesn't work! One of my reasons for upgrading to FC5 was the hope that later X versions would support rotation, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

[tomva@portege ~]$ xrandr
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
*0 1024 x 768 ( 241mm x 181mm ) *60
1 800 x 600 ( 241mm x 181mm ) 60 56
2 640 x 480 ( 241mm x 181mm ) 60
3 848 x 480 ( 241mm x 181mm ) 70
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none

As you can see, no rotations are allowed.

If I tweak my xorg.conf file, I can get a rotated screen (following these instructions: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/...doc/SiS2.html). But that means restarting X every time I want to rotate the screen, which is heavyweight.

Any tips to get xrandr working? I'm hoping there is an updated xorg or other package I can install to get rotation working.

Many thanks!

-Thomas

Hi,

I have a LCD display with pivot function, it works fine with xrandr. You posted you conffigured your xorg.conf according to xorg.freedesktop.org (link is not available). What configuration did you make?

I added the line

Option "RandRRotation" "on"

to my video-device, which enables my video card to rotate the desktop. With xrandr I'm now able to do it, without restarting X. I've got the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed, I guess it will not work without.

Hope that helps....

Shaddy