On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Alexander Case <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure HP still makes those. I don't know if there are Linux > drivers for their monitors (the rotation part, that is.)
xrandr handles rotations just fine (as does at least one of the gnome xrandr font-ends). Gnome settings even has an option for switching the RGB orientation for sub-pixel rendering. I tried this for a while. While it was great to have a vertical 16x9 monitor, the viewing angles were clearly not designed for that orientation. It was pretty much impossible to see colors the same across the entire height of the monitor, and left-right viewing was non-uniform (there was a higher viewing angle in one direction than the other, I don't recall which was which). In some situations, text or widgets would "disappear" because the viewing angle was just far enough off (the color would appear distorted enough that things would blend into the background--move your head up a few inches and you'd be able to see that portion, while loosing detail where you were looking before). There *is* clearly a difference in quality between monitors, because the tablets I've used haven't had these viewing issues when rotated -- but it's something to pay attention to if you're buying a desktop LCD with the intention of rotating it. --Rogan > > On May 5, 2011 8:11 AM, "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/5/2011 7:33 AM, Word Wizard wrote: >> I'm not a big fan of the new "landscape" monitors. I use a... > There used to be monitors that could be rotated 90 degrees. Do they > still make those? Would that solve your problem? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://li... > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
