Re: unable to rotate desktop even with RANDR options and latest ATI drivers

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:00:05 -0500

On 13 Oct 2005 07:44:11 -0700, blackdir@yahoo.com staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> blackdir@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I would like to be able to rotate my desktop. I'm running SUSE 9.3,
>> KDE 3.4.2 with a ATI RADEON 9600 (RV350 4150). I'm using the
>> proprietary ATI driver 8.16.20 with Xorg 6.8.2.
> Unluckly in this NG I didn't get any answer... :( Is that because this
> is a FAQ?

AFAIK, the "rotate" part of RANDR just doesn't work at all with any of
the ATi and nVidia video cards I've ever had access to. I think this is
because A) it's a complex thing to do B) doing rotation removes all the
hardware acceleration, making everything really slow C) hardly anyone
wants to do rotation.

> Does anyone know when RANDR (and in particular rotation) will be
> supported by ATI in their drivers? Shall I upgrade to an NVIDIA
> videocard?

I have an nVidia card and the 7676 build of the evil binary-only module.
Resizing works great; attempting to use "xrandr -o left" returns with a
BadMatch error. Same deal on my laptop with its Rage128 card and the
Free X module from Xorg. 

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