"Peter" == Peter Gordon peter@thecodergeek.com writes:
Peter> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:51 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote: >> Is it possible to rotate the GNOME desktop through 90 degress >> (portrait mode)?
Peter> It is, and depending on the video card and driver you are Peter> using, should be relatively simple.
Peter> Open the "System" main menu, then go to Preferences --> Peter> Hardware --> Screen Resolution. From there you can choose Peter> the Rotation of your choice.
Thanks.
But when i do that, I see the screen resolution drop-down is greyed-out on Normal.
My screen is connected with a VGA cable - would a DVI cable make a difference?
My hardware (according to X11) is:
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 1700 (G84GL) at PCI:8:0:0 (GPU-0)
My xorg.conf looks like this:
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "LCD Panel 1680x1050" HorizSync 31.5 - 65.5 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" EndSection