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Hi Guys, this is Rigo from Advanced Micro Devices. I looked at this rotation issue using Ubuntu 9.10 which comes with generic kernel 2.6.31-17 and Xserver 1.6.4. I am able to rotate the screen just fine with the default geode driver that comes with this distribution using Xrandr. I used command such as:
> xrandr -o left
> xrandr -o right
> xrandr -o inverted
> xrandr -o normal
Rotation is working just fine with 'xrandr'. One thing I noticed is that 'xorg.conf' has been removed from Ubuntu 9.10, so I could not test the original post of rotation problems with 'Xorg.conf'. Since 'Xorg.conf' will no longer be available in current and future releases of Ubuntu it does not make sense to go to an older version of Ubuntu and try to figure out how to rotate from 'Xorg.conf'. We had already been warned that 'xorg.conf' would be removed in the future releases and instead of trying to fix this issue on one particular Ubuntu version I propose finding out what the original post wanted to accomplish by rotating from 'xorg.conf' and find a work around that would work on all the Ubuntu Linux distributions. For Example if the intention was just to use 'xorg.conf' to rotate the display as the system booted then we can do this from some other script file as the system boots.
So, if the person who original posted this issue has not solved this rotation problem, I would like that person to update this issue and let us know what he/she is trying to accomplish so we can suggest a suitable work around to the deprecated 'xorg.conf' way.