Windows problem

[ffutures]

On my Windows XP PC the widescreen monitor has 1680 x 1050 resolution, the graphics card is a 128mb ATI radeon 9200 and supports it well.

So I just ordered a stand that will let me rotate the monitor to portrait mode, which ought to be useful for editing whole pages at 100% magnification. Except that I just thought I'd give it a try, only to get this message:

The requested Rotation mode is not supported by your current display mode (resolution and/or refresh rate and/or colour depth) Please change the current display mode and try again.

So I tried reducing the colour depth and it doesn't work. It doesn't want me to change frequency because it might damage the monitor. And changing the fracking resolution defeats the object of the exercise.

I suspect that this ends with me either abandoning the idea or buying another graphics card. Any suggestions?

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I could only find comments saying that you can't rotate screens on a 9200 e.g.
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=120686

When you find out, please let me know, as I was thinking about doing something similar today.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Then maybe the question I should be asking is which AGP cards do support this sort of rotation?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Again, when you find out, please let me know!

However, I was searching and found this
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/iRotate.shtml

Free software that claims that it can rotate displays (under Windows XP) on many graphics cards ... it may be worth you giving it a try before spending money :-)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Didn't work - and I appear to have the latest drivers so it isn't that.