[X4U] Re: Portrait mode in Tiger

[Michael Elliott]

Very strange...but the first time I installed Tiger, I did it to an  
external Firewire drive and booted my iBook from it.  Poking through  
the System Preferences showed the option to rotate the display, so I  
did it and was able to use my iBook G4 1.25 Ghz on it's side as a  
portrait display!

However, the option to return it back to landscape was gone!  I  
couldn't find the pref again at all, so i actually had to reinstal  
Tiger.  This time, the option never even showed up.

So it looks like the built-in vide on the iBook G4 1.25 Ghz  *IS*  
capable of doing portrait display, but it has to be enabled in  
software.  I wish I could get it to work again, if only to play with  
it:  the LCD appears to be tailored with viewing angles in the  
horizontal vs vertical, so it was hard to see the display clearly  
when it was in portrait mode.

Michael

On May 04, 2005, at 1:0408 PM, Rod Buchanan wrote:

>
> 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!

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