dell ultrasharp question
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- handsomeboy
how do you get your screen to flip into portrait view when you rotate the monitor 90 degrees?
- kalkal0
Mac = System preferences > display. There should be two buttons to rotate in there, if not, your mac has a shitty graphics chip.
PC nVidia - Right click on the desktop > nVidia control panel > rotate display. All the options are in here
PC ATI - dunno, I've never had an ATI card
- handsomeboy0
maccc - yea i think i seen how to do it on a pc
- handsomeboy0
haha i guess i have a bad graphics chip.. im running on an older machine, dual 867 quicksilver..
- G4handsomeboy
- Yea, unfortunatly, It might not support it. Look around, perhaps theres a way to force it in the terminal or something.kalkal
- handsomeboy0
yea i think im screwed - that sucks. i dont know how often i would even use the portrait view but it seemed like it'd be worth trying when im working on posters...
- kalkal0
Apple decided to hide rorate option on some models despite they have capabilities to rotate it. The way to unleash rotating (provided hardware supports the trick) is:
1. Run System Preferences (the point is, it must be just-run, so quit it and reopen if you have it already opened)
2. Alt-click at Displays
3. Select your rotatation :)
- kalkal0
Are you running on tiger? It isn't supported at all below OSX 10.4
- handsomeboy0
thanks man i think i might be screwed, i found a mac forum posting that said this may only be possible in osx10.4.9? i am running an older OS so that might be it unfortunately
i tried what you said but it didn't appear - thanks for the help, really appreciate it!
- handsomeboy0
yea i just read the same thing! cheers kalkal