Re: Portrait display mode

I posted a patch under the thread titled "Console Rotation" 2 days ago.
It should support rotation in 3 additional directions (90, 180 and 270
degrees).  As far as fb-based apps, they have to do the rotation on

I should have looked more closely at the messages, "Console ..." misguided me.

their own.  XFbdev in 4.2.0 already does that.

When the fb drivers support rotation, XFbdev doesn't need rotation anymore.

Doing this in 2.4 will be trickier because of absence of support for
drawing primitives.  (The i810fb driver had console rotation for half a
year now, though)

Does this mean I have to use 2.5 to get rotation?

If you are interested, try the patches (apply them in the order I
mentioned).  http://i810fb.sourceforge.net/fb_rotate.tar.gz

I'm currently using "aty128fb" but may be able to switch to "matroxfb". I'm also
considering buying card with an DVI plug (hopefully without fan :-( )

O. Wyss

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Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script"
("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/")


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