Using the 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode

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Hi.

I'm a newbie here and not at all a hardware buff. My question is a very
simple one. How do I use my 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode? I
start up Word (for example) but if I rotate the screen, the document
doesn't realign itself. And typing with my head held at a right angle
becomes uncomfortable after 48 hours.

I've done a bit of googling to solve this problem and some sites
suggest I need third party drivers to do this, but they don't tell me
where I can download them.

This is probably an embarrassingly simple problem, but I'm prepared to
be embarrassed. Hopefully, someone can help me out.

Regards

Joseph

 

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Kal

thanks for the speed of your answer and for the quality. I knew it was
easy....I just didn't know how.

Regards

Joseph

 

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Go to your monitor setup under Settings and change the orientation.

Kal

On 30 Jul 2005 15:29:38 -0700, "jockmcdock" <j.mcdonnell@vumc.nl>
wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I'm a newbie here and not at all a hardware buff. My question is a very
>simple one. How do I use my 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode? I
>start up Word (for example) but if I rotate the screen, the document
>doesn't realign itself. And typing with my head held at a right angle
>becomes uncomfortable after 48 hours.
>
>I've done a bit of googling to solve this problem and some sites
>suggest I need third party drivers to do this, but they don't tell me
>where I can download them.
>
>This is probably an embarrassingly simple problem, but I'm prepared to
>be embarrassed. Hopefully, someone can help me out.
>
>Regards
>
>Joseph

 

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jockmcdock wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm a newbie here and not at all a hardware buff. My question is a very
> simple one. How do I use my 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode? I
> start up Word (for example) but if I rotate the screen, the document
> doesn't realign itself. And typing with my head held at a right angle
> becomes uncomfortable after 48 hours.

48 hours? You're quite the masochist, aren't you?

<vbg>

Seriously, I think this'll depend on your video card. E.g., I have a
1905FP monitor and an nVidia 6600 video card. The following mouse clicks
takes me to a screen where I can set Landscape/Portrait mode for my monitor:

1. right click on desktop
2. left click Properties
3. left click Settings
4. left click Advanced
5. left click GeForce 6600 tab
6. left click NVRotate

Never tried it myself.

 

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Sparky Spartacus wrote:
> jockmcdock wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm a newbie here and not at all a hardware buff. My question is a very
> > simple one. How do I use my 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode? I
> > start up Word (for example) but if I rotate the screen, the document
> > doesn't realign itself. And typing with my head held at a right angle
> > becomes uncomfortable after 48 hours.
>
> 48 hours? You're quite the masochist, aren't you?
>
> <vbg>
>
> Seriously, I think this'll depend on your video card. E.g., I have a
> 1905FP monitor and an nVidia 6600 video card. The following mouse clicks
> takes me to a screen where I can set Landscape/Portrait mode for my monitor:
>
> 1. right click on desktop
> 2. left click Properties
> 3. left click Settings
> 4. left click Advanced
> 5. left click GeForce 6600 tab
> 6. left click NVRotate
>
> Never tried it myself.

Thanks for the replay, Sparky. You may be right that it depends on the
video card (as I said, I'm not a hardware buff) but Kal's suggestion
let me solve the problem pretty quickly.

In case anyone else is interested, I chose

control panel|display|settings|advanced|rotation

on my XP Home machine and chose a couple of hotkeys to switch between
Portrait and Landscape modes. Dead easy.

Thanks to you both.

Regards

Joseph

 

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jockmcdock wrote:

> Sparky Spartacus wrote:
>
>>jockmcdock wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>I'm a newbie here and not at all a hardware buff. My question is a very
>>>simple one. How do I use my 1905FP flat screen in portrait mode? I
>>>start up Word (for example) but if I rotate the screen, the document
>>>doesn't realign itself. And typing with my head held at a right angle
>>>becomes uncomfortable after 48 hours.
>>
>>48 hours? You're quite the masochist, aren't you?
>>
>><vbg>
>>
>>Seriously, I think this'll depend on your video card. E.g., I have a
>>1905FP monitor and an nVidia 6600 video card. The following mouse clicks
>>takes me to a screen where I can set Landscape/Portrait mode for my monitor:
>>
>>1. right click on desktop
>>2. left click Properties
>>3. left click Settings
>>4. left click Advanced
>>5. left click GeForce 6600 tab
>>6. left click NVRotate
>>
>>Never tried it myself.
>
> Thanks for the replay, Sparky. You may be right that it depends on the
> video card (as I said, I'm not a hardware buff) but Kal's suggestion
> let me solve the problem pretty quickly.

Glad to hear it's solved. Sounds like a different path to the same
solution for your machine's particular configuration.

PS: I'm no hardware buff myself.