Re: Portrait display mode

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 04:18, Otto Wyss wrote: 

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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.

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their own.  XFbdev in 4.2.0 already does that.

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

It really is just console rotation, all other fb-based apps would still
display in the standard "upright" position unless specifically written
for display rotation, such as Xfbdev. 

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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?

I'm not sure if the patch I submitted will even be accepted.  My point
is that it's easier to do this in the 2.5 fb framework than in 2.2-2.4. 
But you can already use Xfbdev in 2.4 to rotate the display.  

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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 :-( )

It depends if the driver maintainers will support the drawing
primitives.  Some may refuse not to, and that is understandable. 

Tony 




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