[X4U] Re: Portrait mode in Tiger

Neil Lists at mac.com
Tue May 17 21:16:14 PDT 2005


on 5/4/05 2:04 PM, Rod Buchanan wrote:

> On May 3, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Amit Gupta wrote:
> 
>>> On 3 May 2005, at 9:43am, Amit Gupta wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Somewhere, I read that Tiger will be having built-in support for
>>>> portrait mode for displays.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Yes. In the Display System Preference there is a new option to
>>> Rotate the display, so that you can turn your monitor around. This
>>> option is only available with certain graphics cards, although I
>>> don't know specifically which cards are supported.
>>> 
>> 
>> Are you talking about those cards that supports Quartz Extreme?
>> Please clarify.
>> 
> 
> It works on my G5 w/ATI Radeon 9600 Pro.  I have a Planar 17" LCD
> that physically pivots and I'm now looking at it in portrait mode.
> Sweet!

I don't see that option.  I have a dual G5/2.0 with a GeForce FX 5200 and a
Dell 2001FP LCD that physically pivots. 



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