Where is RandR rotation handled?

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.co.uk
Tue Dec 1 14:47:07 PST 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 22:25 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an old tablet with a Trident card. A long standing problem has
> been that you cannot rotate the screen with xrandr. It can only be done
> through xorg.conf and thus requires a restart. The error you get is
> this.

The trident driver doesn't support the new driver interfaces to support
RandR and would need some re-writing to do this.

Alan.



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