[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Using Nokia 770 in vertical mode

[From: Riku Voipio]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 10:13, Tapani Pälli wrote:
> It is possible to do rotations even hardware accelerated. However the
> current UI does not scale to it well (as seen from screenshot) and
> therefore it is not a supported feature. nchip is using software xrandr
> but you still need to compile kernel since screen updates don't work
> correctly otherwise ... however using software xrandr you will loose a
> bit in performance (additional copy in memory) and quite much in memory
> (~750kb).

Indeed, it would be preferrable to use HW acceleration, that was only a very 
quick hack. Since the user interface latency is usually not X-related, the 
perfomance loss of additional copy does not make the UI noticably less
unresponsive. 

But ofcourse, this xrandr implementation: 
http://lemody.blogspot.com/2005/11/xrandr-o-2.html Is much more cool :) 
Any chances for a unofficial X binary for hackers with this?-)