Screen Rotation with radeon driver

English Hardware
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I just replaced my older monitor with a slightly newer, much nicer Dell 1905FP. I need to have it rotated, but I have no clue how to rotate it. I have seen several xorg.conf modifications that are supposed to work for some of the nvidia drivers, but nothing for the generic radeon driver. The radio buttons in SaX2 are grayed out as well. How do I set up X11 to rotate my display? Preferably without installing the other ATi driver, as I have tried before to switch to that one, and have been unsucessfull.

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I discovered xrandr could do it, and gave it a try, but it is really buggy, makes the computer run slow, and has many glitches. Is there an xorg.conf modification that will work for the radeon driver?

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I got it to rotate by putting the


  Option     "Rotate" "left"

in the Monitor section, and it works fine on the log in screen, but as soon as I log on, it seems to rotate it again, so that it is rotated upsidedown. Any idea why this is happening? This is only the case on the root account though. If I log onto a normal user, the screen is still in the normal rotation.

4

I’m scratching my head trying to figure out if this is an April fools joke.

Needless to say, you should NEVER EVER login to X with root permissions. NEVER.

5

Sadly, no this is not an april fools joke. At this point, I have to use the root account, seeing as the normal users for some reason do not support screen rotation.(?) If I log in as root, the screen is inverted normal, so upsidedown, if the monitor is viewed normally, and I have to call xrandr -o left in order to get it right. If I long onto a non-root account though, the screen is just in the normal rotation. When i call xrandr -o left, I momentarily see the root desktop, and the windows that were open on it last time it was logged on (even after a reboot strangely enough), then the screen flashes black, and takes me to the login screen. It is an extremely strange scenario, and some of the things that are happening don’t make any sense whatsoever.

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IMHO what is more likely is you have a different setting in the desktop for your root account, and your desktop settings for your regular user could be wrong.

One should not log in as root.