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#1 2007-08-09 09:48:06
- fivre
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Screen rotation
Is there any way I can compel Xorg (no compiz or anything like that) to rotate my screen 90 degrees, such that the resolution is 800x1280 and the 'top' of the screen is on the left or right of the monitor?
According to lspci, my card is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
it uses the i810 driver.
Scratch that, I've figured out how with xrandr.
However, any other orientation than normal makes using the mouse rather confusing. Is there a way I can get the mouse (a touchpad) to convert X movement to Y and vice versa? (Barring things that require restarting X, preferably.)
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#2 2007-08-09 22:39:11
- pauldonnelly
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Re: Screen rotation
However, any other orientation than normal makes using the mouse rather confusing. Is there a way I can get the mouse (a touchpad) to convert X movement to Y and vice versa? (Barring things that require restarting X, preferably.)
Do you mean that when the screen is rotated moving the mouse up does not move the cursor towards the rotated top of the screen?
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#3 2007-08-10 00:57:37
- fivre
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Re: Screen rotation
Well, when the screen is rotated, "up" is to the left, so it's make sense if moving my finger left along the mousepad moved the pointer up. That sort of thing.
Currently it moves the mouse to the "left" of the screen, really down.
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#4 2007-08-10 05:55:38
- Dusty
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Re: Screen rotation
google 'xrandr'... I think you have to enable an extension in xorg and maybe run the xrandr command... I never got it to work; it depends on your graphics card.
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#5 2007-08-10 12:04:13
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Re: Screen rotation
google 'xrandr'... I think you have to enable an extension in xorg and maybe run the xrandr command... I never got it to work; it depends on your graphics card.
Dusty
Yes, I got that much. Now I need to reorient the mouse.
Or un-reorient it, since xrandr seems to be automatically remapping up to real left, I want it to stay up.
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#6 2007-08-13 20:29:15
- pauldonnelly
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Re: Screen rotation
I don't get it. Why don't you want the mouse movement to rotate with the screen?
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#7 2007-08-13 22:27:39
- mr.MikyMaus
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Re: Screen rotation
Intel i810 driver should be able to do so on it's own - try "man i810" and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf appropriately. I don't remember exactly what options need to be set, but I know for sure the driver is capable of rotating screen.
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What happened to Arch's KISS? systemd sure is stupid but I must have missed the simple part ...
... and who is general Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?
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#8 2007-08-14 11:36:48
- fivre
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Re: Screen rotation
I don't get it. Why don't you want the mouse movement to rotate with the screen?
Because it doesn't feel right.
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