Re: X screen orientation...can't change it?

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Devin Butterfield wrote:

> I recently installed intimate and it seemed that X was configured to run in
> landscape mode by default. I wanted to try running X in portrait mode, so I
> edited /etc/init.d/x and restarted X, but it still comes up in landscape mode.
>
> In other words, X runs in landscape mode whether I use:
>
> ./Xfbdev -screen 240x320 -dpi 100 &
>
> or
>
> ./Xfbdev -screen 320x240 -dpi 100 &
>
> What could be wrong here??

Found it, do a
Xfbdev -screen 240x320@270 -dpi 100 &

It will change the screen to portrait mode.

Its amazing what can be found in the mail archives.

Don't know well it works 'tho.

--Dano
Received on Sun Aug 5 11:39:52 2001