SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 09:05 AM (8 days ago)
Hey all,

I recently bought a monitor with the ability to rotate 90 degrees (portrait), but I cannot find the orientation option on my laptop in order to make use of that ability.

I have the latest drivers for both the monitor and my gpu.

GPU is switchable graphics with Radeon HD 6490M and Intel HD.

Does my GPU support display orientation options? Please help.

Thanks.
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 10:09 AM (8 days ago)
Hi:

I believe you can change that option right in Windows 7 in the display menu.

Please see the link below for further guidance.

http://www.labnol.org/software/rotate-monitor-in-windows-7/8972/

Paul
SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 10:12 AM (8 days ago)
Well that's the problem, the option is not there. From what I've heard it has to due with my graphics card, but AMD doesn't support my GPU apparently, so I can't ask them.
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 10:19 AM (8 days ago)
I don't have switchable graphics.

Can you change the orientation when you switch to the Intel GPU?
SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 10:21 AM (8 days ago)
No, which is weird. The laptops that I have at work (HP Pavilion g6) have the option and I am sure they have the same Intel GPU.
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 10:44 AM (8 days ago)
That is wierd.

And there is no option in the catalyst control center anywhere to change the orientation?
SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 10:50 AM (8 days ago)
No. The Catalyst Control Center the HP updates give me is extremely barebones.
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 10:52 AM (8 days ago)
That is too bad.

And unfortunately you can't download the driver from AMD, as it will only work with a notebook with one GPU.
SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 10:56 AM (8 days ago)
Yeah, hence my dilemma. I would expect HP to provide me with proper GPU updates (or proper CCC).
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 11:00 AM (8 days ago)
Sorry, I can't be of any more assistance.

Hopefully, HP will issue updated drivers in the near future.

Paul
SpiderCVIII
03-07-2012 11:06 AM (8 days ago)
Yeah, hopefully HP comes through for me. I only need to use portrait mode for work (to read whole PDF pages) and I can just rotate it through Adobe, but want to having the whole screen rotate helps so using my mouse on the screen isn't weird.

Thanks for the help. Kudos to you.
Paul_Tikkanen
03-07-2012 11:18 AM (8 days ago)
You're very welcome.

Thanks for the Kudos.

Best Regards,

Paul