Enable Monitor Rotation on your Powerbook

Re: slow on rotated screen i am using painter essential, when i am drawing on the rotated screen, its takes half a second more for the stroke to complete, its quite annoying.... i am on a 1GHz G4 Powerbook with 768mb Ram. i hope there is a way to fix this, coz one of my main reason not going for the cinema display is being able to rotate the screen.

It seems like this nifty feature disappeared after updating to 10.4.2 :(

Why would this work for a 12" iBook but not a 12" Powerbook?

Ok, laugh out loud. I tried this on my mini and the screen blanked out. Dark. No picture. I waited 30 seconds, w/ no return to the original (right side up settings). I rebooted and it was right side up for the Apple logo; it was rotated 90 deg for log in, and then it goes blank after log in. Any ideas on how to UNDO this? I'm using a 17" Sony CRT monitor (no it doesn't rotate!). Any "safe mode" log in I can use? Many thanks in advance for the replies. -C

Finally! A use for the round, puck-style Apple mice! That way you can hold them sideway, upside down. All you have to do is click a bit different. Hmmm. Click different. . . ?

works great on my Ti book and hey - someone wanna be awesomely cool and make a program to change the trackpad preffs so we all dont die trying to tun this feature off? :)

thanks for your help scott and chris, and one random question for scott mcnulty who writes at tuaw.com, do you work at penn?

Re: slowness when rotated It sounds to me like all the screen draws get done to a portrait shaped frame buffer (e.g. 1024x1280) so that the x and y axis are still in the same direction, and then it gets rotated in it's entirety (e.g. to 1280x1024) as a final operation . If that is the case, it's a pretty sucky way of doing things. Your GPU is now tasked with doing 60|70|85 huge texture rotations per second, which might be managable for the more powerful hardware, but is a big hit for a Mini. Yes, that was all based on assumption, but it seems to fit the evidence.

Doesn't work for me on my 12" with GeForce FX Go5200. Guess I'm in the same boat as CK when it comes to screen rotation. I'll be testing this on my mates new iBook when it comes, and my friends iMac G5 once his new modem arrives and he installs tiger.

Mitey, if I had to guess, which I assume you would like me to, you are right. The Mac mini is using up most of its graphics mojo drawing the screen to whatever rotation you have it set to, so I would expect lightening fast reaction out of other graphically intense operations.