Rotate the display, independant of the video card driver?

Hi all,

I realize that display rotation is typically a function of the video card
driver, but I'm wondering if there's any software solution that can do that
independantly of the card...

I understand that it would probably be *way* slower than a native driver,
but I could live with that--the rotated monitor would typically only be
needed to display the content of a couple of windows from Visual Studio
(there's a couple of windows that could use all the vertical space they can
get), so even something with a slow refresh would be perfectly acceptable.

Dominic
Mon Dec 31 08:14:01 PST 2007

Try Pivot http://www.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html



"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:OA8s647SIHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I realize that display rotation is typically a function of the video card
> driver, but I'm wondering if there's any software solution that can do
> that independantly of the card...
>
> I understand that it would probably be *way* slower than a native driver,
> but I could live with that--the rotated monitor would typically only be
> needed to display the content of a couple of windows from Visual Studio
> (there's a couple of windows that could use all the vertical space they
> can get), so even something with a slow refresh would be perfectly
> acceptable.
>

Homer
Mon Dec 31 09:22:37 PST 2007

> Try Pivot http://www.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html

Awesome. Thanks.

While investigating whether PowerStrip had the capability, I stumbled upon
iRotate (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm), made by the same
guys. It's free, and better yet, it works under XP x64.

I should've dug deeper into this months ago... :-)