From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Wyss Subject: Re: Portrait display mode Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:18:35 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3D7FA51A.EC5A6FD5@bluewin.ch> References: <3D7E59B0.5FC023D3@bluewin.ch> <1031696622.548.13.camel@daplas> Reply-To: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay03.cablecom.net ([62.2.33.103]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17pDwd-00082z-00 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:18:40 -0700 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Antonino Daplas Cc: "'linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net'" > 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 -- Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script" ("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/") ------------------------------------------------------- In remembrance www.osdn.com/911/