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Old September 6th, 2011, 22:14
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Hi everyone,

I have a monitor plugged on my FreeBSD box and I would like to use it in vertical (portrait) mode. Is it possible? How can I do this?

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Depends on the driver you are using. For nvidia, check nvidia-settings for an option to rotate. For the open source intel/radeon drivers, you can use xrandr with the --rotate option. Something along the lines of:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --rotate left

Obviously the argument to --output might be different, depending on the driver and if you have multiple monitors.

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Thank you for the answer.
How can I check which driver is at use?
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Hi,

I will add that, I know that my graphic card is a NVIDIA. But as I have never installed the nvidia driver myself, I would like to check if it is the nvidia provided driver which is at use (someone else could have installed and configured it) or another one (generic one maybe).
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You can look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

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hum...
maybe I should have specified that... I do not use a GUI environment. So there is no /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
My goal is to have to "raw" terminal display in portrait mode.
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As far as I know, you can't.

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With a custom sideways font and console driver... but that would be limited to VESA resolutions, so never mind.

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