Switching laptop display to portrait mode the mouse reorients itself successfully. THetouchpa

When switching the Pavilion DM1Z -2100 display to portrait mode the mouse reorients itself but the touchpad does not.  How can I get the touchpad to work correctly in Display Portrait Mode?

I do though hesitate to rotate the whole body of the machine. Functioning vertically may not be the best of things to do. At least back 10 years ago, and I don't know if it is true now, shifting the drive from the position it was formatted in relative to gravity to a different one for use without reformatting it can shorten the length of the hard drive. This was the case with the drives on some PowerMac 6500s which were formatted vertically and placed horizontally elsewhere.
Whether or not you can do that with notebook drives regularly, remains to be seen. I'd say it would be better to get an external display that supports the rotation.

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