dual monitors, independent rotation control?

[copsey]

Guys
I'm thinking of getting a second widescreen monitor and having one landscape and one rotated in portrait orientation. Looking in the old nvidia control panel (8800 GTX) under display, every section has a picker for "which monitor" - except rotation. Do all monitors on the same graphics card share the rotation setting? If so - would i have to get another graphics card to make this work?

cheers

 

[copsey]

anyone?

 

[clv101]

Don't know about nVidia but in ATi you can rotate monitors independently.

 

[copsey]

Thanks for the reply - anyone using an nvidia chip like this?

Anyone got two monitors on an 8800 - can you have a check and see if you can set the rotation independantly?

thanks!

 

[Skeeter]

It is fully possible in the 169.21 drivers on an 8800GT.

I jsut did it. It was with a TV connected through composite, but It shouldnt make a difference as i just selected the monitor, and rotated it independantly. I see no reason why this wont work with a monitor not a tv.

 

[copsey]

Great - thanks for trying it for me Skeeter!

 

[wuyanxu]

in university, we've got 2x 20inch hooked up to 8800GTS in the CAD machines. you can go into nVidia Control Panel, and select which monitor you want to rotate.

but if you've only got single monitor, it will only show rotate options for 1 monitor.

IMO, left one should be left landscape, and the right one should be portrait. and left as main, so the taskbar will be wider.
make sure you buy one with excellent up-down viewing angle, the HP ones in uni have horrible up-down viewing angle, when in portrait orientation, i feel my left eye sees the image differently to the right eye.