2 monitors- 1 vertical

I have 2 of the standard mac pro video cards. my main monitor is in port 1 and works great- the second monitor is vertically orientated and i can't get it to be recognized to Rotate: 90 degrees. (3rd and 4th monitor are another tv and standard monitor)
Level 2 support doesn't have an answer- anyone know how to get it to work?

Hello and welcome to Apple discussions.
I'm afraid unless Nvidia supplies a update to their video card driver software that rotating a monitor isn't possible.
There are no driver updates for Mac's on their site, they only strickly give a OEM solution.
Now some monitors will "tell" the driver software when the computer reboots that it's orientation is 1200 x 1920 instead of 1920 x 1200 for instance and the driver software (if it has that resolution) will just do it.
ATI has always been a bit more bending with some of their video cards and drivers supporting rotation, for instance the one I have supports it, but isn't available for PCI video card based Mac's. I'm thinking Apple dislikes the very concept of rotating monitors, the 30" being able to rotate would be awesome.
You might just have to wait until a solution appears and buy that video card, update the driver software. Right now AMD owns ATI, so the future is uncertain. We might be using only Nvidia video cards from now on. (Intel and AMD are rivals)

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