Where is RandR rotation handled?

James Le Cuirot chewi at aura-online.co.uk
Wed Dec 2 03:25:43 PST 2009


On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:07 +0000
Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 22:25 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > 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.

That's probably beyond me, which is a shame. Out of curiosity, I'd still
like to know where this is handled in the other drivers though.

James


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