Setting a monitor into portrait mode in OS X 10.1

Is there any way I can set a monitor to display a portrait mode? (f.g. making 1024 x 768 into 768 x 1024) I am certain you can't do this with OS X 10.1, but is there any software utility that can "trick" it?

Hi, kittytom200x. If the monitor wasn't designed to pivot and didn't come with a 10.1-compatible proprietary driver to enable rotating the displayed image and relocating the menu bar, I seriously doubt that you're going to find any way to accomplish that. Particularly not in OS X 10.1, which was far from complete and full-featured (to say the least!), and supported few hardware tweaks or customizations.

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Getting Portrait Mode prior to X11 startup and in SLIM

Hi all,
I've been on Arch for about a week now and am having a fun time coding on it. I finally got an LCD stand that allows me to swivel my screen to portrait orientation so I suddenly have some great vertical real estate.
My current setup is Arch Linux -> SLIM -> XFCE4 with X11 configured to run on Intel drivers rather than the standard VESA one. XFCE allows me to rotate my desktop from a simple GUI application. After doing some research, it seems that this is being accomplished by using xrandr - a utility that ships with X.org, which means this rotation is only happening with the benefit of being in an X environment.
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http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Document … /fbcon.txt
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I also noticed SLIM starts up in landscape mode as well. I believe SLIM runs in X environment (correct me if I'm mistaken). It doesn't seem to be an option in SLIM to rotate, so I imagine I could have X start already rotated, in effect causing everything (SLIM, XFCE) to inherit the rotation property. I tried configuring things by creating a "10-monitor.conf" file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ according to this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … r_settings
...with the addition of these changes:
Section "Screen"
+Option "RandRRotation" "on"
+Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Option "DRI" "false"
Option "RandRRotation"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
(ref: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=26747)
This did not do the trick for me and I'm still logging in by craning my neck... (just kidding; I swivel it back around).
I'm somewhat new to Linux so if I miss any details please let me know.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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P.S. -- Extra info for my X configuration (to get SLIM rotated):
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf file:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "false"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen"
Device "Device"
Monitor "Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Full output of Xorg.0.log in Codepad: http://codepad.org/6aM0gTvM
Last edited by yodafingers (2011-01-13 00:17:15)

UPDATE: Only solved one of my problems so far (getting virtual terminals to be in portrait mode) by modifying my grub bootlist:
/boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Arch Linux (portrait)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/991f0c73-38a8-444e-b1a4-41105c7d609c ro fbcon=rotate:3,scrollback=2048k
initrd /kernel26.img
I made a mistake in the previous post: uvesafb allows you to run the console in full resolution, fbcon rotation seems to be a separate matter.
Still no luck yet getting SLIM into portrait mode. I tried various things, but it seems that the X Option for "Rotate" is unsupported by the Intel video driver. I chopped out the Device/Monitor/Screen sections from the xorg.conf that is created when you run "Xorg -configure" and tossed that into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf to no avail...
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf:
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "AccelMethod" # [<str>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FallbackDebug" # [<bool>]
#Option "Tiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "Shadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "SwapbuffersWait" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMC" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvPreferOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugFlushBatches" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugFlushCaches" # [<bool>]
#Option "DebugWait" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
# Tack on some rotation options
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Xorg.0.log full version: http://codepad.org/mrsVi4QW
Xorg.0.log excerpt:
[ 14.511] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[ 14.511] (==) intel(0): DPMS enabled
[ 14.511] (==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
[ 14.511] (II) intel(0): Set up textured video
[ 14.511] (II) intel(0): Set up overlay video
[ 14.512] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled
[ 14.512] (WW) intel(0): Option "RandRRotation" is not used
[ 14.512] (WW) intel(0): Option "Rotate" is not used
[ 14.512] (--) RandR disabled
[ 14.512] (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
As you can see, the Intel chipset doesn't like those options so it seems I cannot set them statically using xorg.conf files.
However, dynamically applying the rotation using xrandr seems to work. For example, I can open up a terminal right now and type `xrandr -o [orientation]` and rotate my screen on the fly. I tried this approach too, seeing if I could sneak in a call to xrandr before SLIM starts up. I was not able to get anywhere with this... I tried calling xrandr in:
/root/.xinitrc (I believe this runs when X logs into root)
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/ (scripts in this directory are supposed to be executed upon X startup)
None of this did the trick, SLIM still starts up in normal orientation. Has anyone here successfully rotated SLIM, or any login manager for that matter? I'm considering switching over to GDM to see if I have better luck (I believe GDM provides some form of pre-start configuration scripting), but would like to avoid moving to GDM if I can do this with SLIM.
Any help with this would be hugely appreciated. Thanks
Last edited by yodafingers (2011-01-13 05:53:09)

Change resolution for portrait mode.

Hello guys!
I've met a problem about resolution aspect ratio on my Mac. Please help.
Mac: Mac Book Air 2013-Mid (11 inches, Core i5, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
OS: Mavericks (10.9.3)
Monitor: GeChic On-Lap 1302 for Mac (using MiniDisplayPort cable.)
Phenomenon:
In monitor setting screen, I rotated 270 or 90 degrees to use this monitor as portrait mode. But it displays weird as the photo below.
My MBA tries to display it as landscape mode, and there are big black dead space on upper and lower.
I just want it to display portrait mode without the dead spaces.
I tried some things so far as below to research.
1) SMC reset == No effect
2) Cram shell mode (use this external monitor as primary and disable Mac's own monitor) == Displays Nice without dead space. (But it can't be a solution because I need to use Mac's own monitor.)
3) In Apple store, use Mountain Lion with network boot == Displays Nice as Dual monitor.
4) In Apple store, use other Mac Book Air 2013-Mid (13 inches) with Yosemite == Same phenomenon.
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Today, I brought it to Apple store and discussed with Apple technician, but we couldn't solve this issue at last.
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