Rotating display in Ubuntu

**daehenoc** · July 3rd, 2008

I have bad news for you: fglrx 'features' and screen rotation [wiki.cchtml.com]

I'm ditching my ATI card and getting an nVidia one! God-damn I hate ATI cards!

**revolutio** · July 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by daehenoc

I have bad news for you: fglrx 'features' and screen rotation [wiki.cchtml.com]

I'm ditching my ATI card and getting an nVidia one! God-damn I hate ATI cards!

I want to desperately but I am also horribly broke. Plus I have an AGP motherboard and who makes the only decent AGP cards? ATI!

Rage. You shouldn't have to get new hardware to enjoy basic operating system features. So far I almost have Ubuntu working on par with Windows XP.

**Plasma_NZ** · July 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by revolutio

I want to desperately but I am also horribly broke. Plus I have an AGP motherboard and who makes the only decent AGP cards? ATI!

Rage. You shouldn't have to get new hardware to enjoy basic operating system features. So far I almost have Ubuntu working on par with Windows XP.

My ubuntu has surpassed XP - and made it look dull and useless.. Hope u manage to surpass XP with your setup and uninstall it

**chalewa** · July 4th, 2008

Originally Posted by Plasma_NZ

My ubuntu has surpassed XP - and made it look dull and useless.. Hope u manage to surpass XP with your setup and uninstall it

as has mine...

i am forced to use windows at work and can't tell you how much it frustrates me.

the littlest things in the world make the biggest difference. the 'always on top' feature in ubuntu is something that i have taken for granted. for me, it is one of the simplest most useful features found in ubuntu.

**Plasma_NZ** · July 6th, 2008

Originally Posted by chalewa

as has mine...

i am forced to use windows at work and can't tell you how much it frustrates me.

the littlest things in the world make the biggest difference. the 'always on top' feature in ubuntu is something that i have taken for granted. for me, it is one of the simplest most useful features found in ubuntu.

Hey man kinda curious as to your setup...

Mine goes like this....

Primary screen 19" LCD - running compiz with 5 virtual-desktops, in expo mode (cube is gay)
Second LCD 17" on my left is a seperate Xsession that runs Movies 24/7, a 32" tv in my bedroom clones the 17" LCD, to my right is my sons room, he has his own 19" tv which also runs its own xession and plays toon's 24/7...

In total i ALWAYS have running,

Virtual-Desktop-1 / 4 conkys, gkrellm

Virtual-Desktop-2 / top (terminal system monitor), a terminal window, Pidgin

Virtual-Desktop-3 / Firefox

Virtual-Desktop-4 / Evolution

Virtual-Desktop-5 / LinuxDC++

2 instances of VLC player (read above re-which screens they are on).

With all that going full-tilt, it use's 1.17ghz of my 3ghz duo-core 64bit (6ghz if u want to count both core speeds) 680mb ram..

What's yours like..

**chalewa** · July 7th, 2008

Originally Posted by Plasma_NZ

Hey man kinda curious as to your setup...

Mine goes like this....

Primary screen 19" LCD - running compiz with 5 virtual-desktops, in expo mode (cube is gay)
Second LCD 17" on my left is a seperate Xsession that runs Movies 24/7, a 32" tv in my bedroom clones the 17" LCD, to my right is my sons room, he has his own 19" tv which also runs its own xession and plays toon's 24/7...

In total i ALWAYS have running,

Virtual-Desktop-1 / 4 conkys, gkrellm

Virtual-Desktop-2 / top (terminal system monitor), a terminal window, Pidgin

Virtual-Desktop-3 / Firefox

Virtual-Desktop-4 / Evolution

Virtual-Desktop-5 / LinuxDC++

2 instances of VLC player (read above re-which screens they are on).

With all that going full-tilt, it use's 1.17ghz of my 3ghz duo-core 64bit (6ghz if u want to count both core speeds) 680mb ram..

What's yours like..

damn that is intense.

i wish that i could have that kinda organization. i used to do something similar when i was at school, but now that i am at home, my setup is rather vanilla, the only exciting thing being compiz. sometimes i get adventurous and throw up another monitor or something like that if i feel like impressing friends but that is rare.

my major issue is that i am constantly changing what my desktop setup is. one week i will feel like using gnome, and the next i will go back to xfce. it is tough for me to keep any sort of regularity with my desktops and what is running on each.

**Ulrich Scholz** · July 7th, 2008

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem - kubuntu 8.04 does not rotate the screen. I've added
Option "XRandR" "True"
to my xorg.conf. My graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series. But it does not work.

Is there hope?

Ulrich

Code:

[scholzuh@emld-desktop:Ftp] >more /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildd@palmer)  Tue Jan 22 12:05:14 UTC 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Layout0"
  screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
        Inputdevice     "Keyboard0"     "CoreKeyboard"
        Inputdevice     "Mouse0"        "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        Rgbpath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load            "extmod"
        Load            "type1"
        Load            "freetype"
        Load            "glx"
        Load            "GLcore"
        Load            "v4l"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        # generated from default
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        # generated from default
        Identifier      "Keyboard0"
        Driver          "keyboard"
EndSection

        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        # generated from default
        Identifier      "Keyboard0"
        Driver          "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Monitor0"
        Vendorname      "Samsung"
        Modelname       "Samsung SyncMaster 204T/204Ts/214T,SyncMaster Magic CX201Ts(Digital)"
        Horizsync       30-81
        Vertrefresh     56-75
  modeline  "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "1152x864@75" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1280x1024@75" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1280x1024@60" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1280x960@75" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1600x1200@65" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
  modeline  "1600x1200@60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
        Gamma   1.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Device0"
        Boardname       "nv"
        Busid           "PCI:2:0:0"
        Driver          "nv"
        Option "XRandR" "True"
        Screen  0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen0"
        Device          "Device0"
        Monitor         "Monitor0"
        Defaultdepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Virtual 1600    1200
                Modes           "1600x1200@60"  "1600x1200@65"  "1400x1050@60"  "1280x960@75"   "1280x1024@60"  "1280x960@60"
   "1280x1024@75"  "1152x864@75"   "1024x768@60"   "1024x768@70"   "1024x768@75"   "832x624@75"    "800x600@60"    "800x600@75"    "800x600@72"    "800x600@56"    "640x480@75"    "640x480@72"    "640x480@60"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection