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Bug 308560 - gdm does not honour rotate from Xorg.conf
gdm does not honour rotate from Xorg.conf
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-21 17:51 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-01-12 22:56 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-06-21 17:51:39 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/12049

"When using the (lcd) screen in portrait mode ( instead of landscape ) thus more
pix vertical then horizontal, hardcoded in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "RandRRotation"
        Option          "RenderAccel"
EndSection
GDM ignores this, this makes that login typing is from top to bottom instead of
left to right.  Once logged in X session is rotated correctly.  Only trouble
after that is xscreensaver bug nr 11697: xscreensaver got started with wrong
(landscape) parameters."
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2005-08-03 02:04:14 UTC 
I would accept a patch to fix this.
Comment 2 Brian Cameron 2006-01-12 22:56:27 UTC 
The Option "RandRRotation" just means that you have the ability to rotate.  You are probably doing something when you start up your session to cause the session to be rotated.  Perhaps in your init scripts (.profile or something).

If you want the Xserver to come up rotated by default then you need to set up your Xorg configuration differently.  The option is driver specific, so you'll have to look it up for your driver.

This is not a GDM bug.