[X4U] Re: Portrait mode in Tiger

[Michael Elliott]

When I initially installed on my iBook G4 1.25 ghz, I had the option  
to rotate the display.  I had Tiger installed on an external firewire  
drive.  Once I rotated it, the screen worked perfecly in portrait  
mode.  However, the option to rotate back to norma, landscape mode  
was gone.  I couldn't find any pref, etc that would allow me to  
change it back.

Rebooting from the internal drive w/ Panther 10.3.9 was normal.   
Booting my iMac G4 20" from the FW drive didn't show the screen  
rotation...or the option to rotate.

When I erased and re-installed Tiger on the external HD, the option  
to rotate the display had gone.

So I *KNOW* that the video card in the iBook G4 1.25 Ghz is capable  
of doing screen rotation.  Not that I'd want to leave it that way for  
a long time :-)  But for displaying a single, higher-resolution page  
of text (say, a .pdf) it would be sweet.

Michael

On May 18, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Rod Buchanan wrote:

> On May 17, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Neil wrote:
>
>
>> on 5/4/05 2:04 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!
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I believe it only works with ATI cards that support ATI's VERSAVISION.
>
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