Re: [tlug] how do I rotate monitor image?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> now it could be that my man page doesn't correspond to
    Matt> Michal's X installation, since I have x.org and he has XF86.

Too bad for him.  :-(  But he'll have Xorg by 2015 or so, since it's
in Debian sid now.  ;-)

    Matt> Also, I didn't read it in depth, and it's been years since I
    Matt> had to manually tweak monitor modes, so I could well be
    Matt> wrong, but what I think it said was that VESA standard modes
    Matt> are built in, and others have to be set up manually.

The X servers do understand that protocol, I'm pretty sure.  For
XFree86 there was a "magic mode" for notebooks that basically said
"ask the hardware."  You may need digital video output for that, though.

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