Re: Portrait Display on Linux

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 18:52:04 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > of the system? Some people did told me that I should modify the X
> > windows
> > directly to have better performance, but I am quite reluctant due to
> > the complexity and lack of understanding of X server itself. I would
> > be gladful if someone could do that or guide me on doing it.
>
> It is non trivial to get X working portrait mode. You will need to implement
> a new set of frame buffer drawing functions for it. You can probably base
> the code on the existing renderers but its non trivial.

hmmm, I believe that "shadowfb" in XFree86 4.0 can already do portrait
mode.

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