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Enable Rotating the Display
Authored by: cdoran on Aug 01, '05 01:22:20PM

I went to the www.ati.com website and downloaded the "ATI DISPLAYS 4.5.1" driver package. It installs a new System Preferences pane that allows any ATI graphics card to rotate the screen.

I tried different orientations of my iMac G5 rev. B laying it on its right and left sides and watched the CPU and Hard Drive temperatures using the Hardware Monitor shareware. The temperatures never exceeded the normal upright orientation's temps.

With the iMac G5 on its side at 1440x900 resolution you can see a full 8.5x14 legal page in Word with some room for the floating palettes. You may want to remove some menubar icons (e.g. AirPort, iChat, Clock, etc.) due to the narrower menubar.

I have not tried the AppleScripts.



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Enable Rotating the Display-ATI Displays 4.5.6 HELL - Kernel Panic
Authored by: RandyInLA on Oct 23, '05 03:50:26PM

I just spent the last 12 hours in hell trying to get my 17" powerbook back! I looked for the ATI Displays 4.5.1 package and all they had at ATI's site was the newer 4.5.6 version. It states in the details about the file that it will work with all ATI cards, including the 9700 in the 17" powerbook. I installed it, (telling me ahead of time I had to reboot after) and then the configuration box opened. I rotated the display with no problem. Ran a couple programs and absolutely loved the longer display! I then rebooted and had a kernal panic during boot. It got to the blue screen just before the login window and then kernel paniced. I was able to boot off the MRD emergency boot cd and get back online to research the issue. I found nothing at ATI's site and nothing of any value anywhere else other than to remove anything ATI related in the /system/library/extensions folder. I did and was able to reboot. Display pref pane now only shows 1440x900 resolution, so I then installed the recommended 17" powerbook graphics update and rebooted. Machine is back, no kernel panic.
I decided to download/reinstall OSX10.4.2 update. After installing and rebooting...KERNEL PANIC!!! Tried to reboot several times. Wow...what a night. I rebooted off the MRD cd again and re-deleted anything ATI related from /system/library/extensions, rebooted, reapplied the graphics update only and here I am. Is there any way to get the rotate option and NOT any of the other ATI driver headaches???? There must be a way, no? What about the ATI Rom update? Since the 'ATI Displays 4.5.6' software didn't work, the Rom update could allow the software to function properly... or permanently kill my display.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Chipset:ATY,RV360M11
Vendor:ATI(0x1002)
DeviceID:0x4e50
RomVer:113-xxxxx-160
OSX10.4.2 build 8c46
CPU: PowerPC G4 (1.2) 1.67Ghz Rom:4.9.1f3



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