Rotate for radeon driver supported ?

[Alex Deucher]

On 11/26/06, Zampelli Stéphane <szampelli at swing.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to rotate my screen by using the Option "Rotate" "[C]CW" option. It
> is not working at the moment. I suppose this is not supported.
>

the radeon driver does not curently support rotation.

> My questions :
>
> 1) Is the option rotate supported in version 7.1.1 ? (xrandr tells no)

no

> 2) Is there a more recent (cvs?) xorg version supporting rotation for radeon
> driver ?

no

> 3) Are there any plans to implement this feature in the (near) future ?

it depends on developer time.  Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone
working on it.

> 4) Is there any other way to get rotation working ? (framebuffer, alternative
> drivers, ...)

You might be able to get it working with the kdrive xserver and fbdev.

Alex

>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Zampelli Stéphane.
>
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> 13:49:47 $ Xorg -version
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> X Window System Version 7.1.1
> Release Date: 12 May 2006
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
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