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Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 17:45, Tim wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 15:20 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> Or install 'resize and rotate', which I think is called randr.  (It
>>> could be a kde utility, though.)  It allows you to choose any
>>> resolution that you are set up for, and change it at will.
>> Hmm, can you get that to work with CRTs?  (I had a brief unsuccessful
>> attempt.)
>>
> In truth, I can't remember whether I ever used it with a CRT.  I've not seen 
> anything that says it can't be.

There shouldn't be any difference except that you'll find a crt that can
be flipped on its side difficult to find.  One caveat is that it will
depend on your videocard Driver.  I recently noted an option in the
nvidia-xconfig which merely adds an
     Option         "RandRRotation" "True"
to the screen section of the xorg.conf.
	When I tried it I found that it altered the x,y outputs to the monitor
and also reconfigured the mouse to track to the rotated picture.
	Problem is it did not change the screen dimensions so that much of the
horizontal screen was off-monitor and the Vertical had a ghost re-image
at the bottom of the screen, so clearly this was not very usable but
perhaps nvidia is working on this.

Scott

> 
>> ... Tim, thinking of a way to, finally, read an ebook in bed, like I can
>> with real books.
>>
> I don't think that can be achieved from the gui - other display options are 
> greyed out.  I tried to launch it as root, thinking that would allow me to 
> change them, but all it did was list the current settings (and other display 
> settings).  The package is  /usr/bin/xrandr and the man page says 'The -o 
> option is used to specify the orientation of the screen, and can be one 
> of "normal inverted left right 0 1 2 3". '
> 
> Anne
> 

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