i915 rotate option

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/1/05, Kúti Zsolt <kuti at cetelem.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:05:14 -0400
> Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> carved into electrons/véste
> elektronokba:
> 
> 
> > none of the xorg servers support rotation via xrandr at the moment.
> > several drivers including i810 support the "rotate" driver option that
> > lets you rotate the display at server start.  However this uses
> > shadowfb and is unaccelerated.
> 
> Thanks Alex for your answer! You meant i810 driver as of 6.8.2?

No I think you need the driver from xorg cvs.  I forgot to mention that.
you can grab nightly binary snapshots here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76
or build from source.

Alex

> 
> I have seen somewhere, so included in xorg.conf the followings:
> Option "Rotate" "CW"
> Option "Rotate" "CCW"
> 
> After start I see in Xorg.0.log:
> (WW) I810(0): Option "Rotate" is not used
> (==) RandR enabled
> 
> What should I do then to get rotation work (even if unaccelerated)?
> 
> Cheers
> Zsolt
>