Rotate Display in Gnome on wayland

So the question; is it currently possible to rotate displays in a (dual) display configuration under gnome via wayland? It is clearly possible under xorg, via randr, but this results in horrible screen tearing on the rotated display when scrolling webpages. Under wayland, there is no screen tearing (ever), so I think this might be a solution if I can get the screen rotated. There are obviously many other benefits of wayland as well. The settings are missing under the default screen utility for gnome, as well as under aranadr. I am running radeon git drivers and have tested with both the EnablePageFlip and the new TearFree options for xorg to no avail. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

bbarcher wrote:
ooo wrote:
bbarcher wrote:I don't see the wiki page even mention driver installation. What do I miss? I intend to start a minimum hassle Gnome on wayland session.
Previously you had to install xwayland and vf86-video drivers patched for it. These days everything required is included in xorg-server 1.16, or rather its development snapshots.
Could you tell me what is actually missing in current Arch?
Actually you'll have to wait for Gnome 3.14 if you don't want anything from development snapshot. Because the code in 3.12 only supports the old xwayland (maybe the Gnome developers only cares the stability in Fedora), the code for the Xwayland DDX in Xorg 1.16 has been added in Gnome 3.13 series and will be released with 3.14.

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-- Rotate Display on machines running OS X 10.4.x with ATI Radeon cards.
-- This code is offered without any liability implied or explicit.
-- Use it at your own risk.
-- Copyright 2005, 2006 Conrad Albrecht-Buehler
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-- "Enable access for assistive devices" is checked in the
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