dell ultrasharp question 99 Responses

Last post: 5 years, 3 months ago | Thread started: Feb 5, 08, 3:44 p.m.

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• handsomeboy

  how do you get your screen to flip into portrait view when you rotate the monitor 90 degrees?

  Feb 5, 08, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  Using a mac or a pc?

  • If you're using a pc, is it an ATI or nVidia card?– kalkal

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:45 p.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  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

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:48 p.m. – Permalink

• handsomeboy

  maccc - yea i think i seen how to do it on a pc

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:48 p.m. – Permalink

• handsomeboy

  haha i guess i have a bad graphics chip.. im running on an older machine, dual 867 quicksilver..

  • G4– handsomeboy1/2

    Yea, unfortunatly, It might not support it. Look around, perhaps theres a way to force it in the terminal or something.– kalkal2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:49 p.m. – Permalink

• handsomeboy

  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...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:52 p.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  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 :)

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    If you want to revert to previous rotation, or to standard - close System Preferences and go to #1– kalkal1/2

    #1– kalkal2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:52 p.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  Are you running on tiger? It isn't supported at all below OSX 10.4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 3:59 p.m. – Permalink

• handsomeboy

  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!

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 4:01 p.m. – Permalink

• handsomeboy

  yea i just read the same thing! cheers kalkal

  

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  Dog-earFeb 5, 08, 4:03 p.m. – Permalink