Vertical Display on Ext. Monitor

I bought an HP w2207 monitor (which totally rocks the house, by the way), and it comes with the handy feature of rotating vertical for viewing webpages, editing photos, ect.
At the electronic's store, the monitor was connected to a Vista machine and when tilted vertical, the monitor recalibrated itself and displayed vertical automatically.
Does anyone know if this can be done with my Mac Book Pro. I'm connected using a DVI-I cable (I think it's "I")?
MBP 15" 2x2 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

ATI video cards support rotation, so I hear. Needs the ATI displays program installed, no idea if that supports the current card, and I personally wouldn't risk it.

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