Somebody at JKonTheRun has pointed us to a possible solution for screen rotation called iRotate. I tested in my desktop pc and it seems to me that this could be what we are looking for. This program supports many video cards and it's very small, less than 100 Kb.
Update: Tested in this tool does not work in an Origami device. I'll contact the author and point him to this post to see what he says about it.
I asked JK, if he could try the Irotate on the UMPC.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great if it worked.
It's in the comment section, and I linked to your site.
Didn't work for me. :)
ReplyDelete--Sears
Wow Sears, nice to see you here. Well, now we know for sure that it wont work at least in the way it's. is it because of the screen calibration no?
ReplyDeleteI sent an email to the author of the program to see what he says about it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how they're doing the rotation in the app, but if I was to guess, and that's what it is *g*, I'd say it's probably the display driver.
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I checked the forum of the company that makes this program and the guy behind it is very "willing to help" kind of person so let see what he says. The major problem that I can see at this moment is that nobody has a eo V7110 to help him with the testing :D
ReplyDeleteIs there anything that you can do about it Sears in the case the author reply to my email?
Sears, I got an answer. This is what they guy said...
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid it is completely meaningless to say something like iRotate does or does not "work properly" without referring to the undelying graphics hardware and display driver. Generally, iRotate will work with new ATI, Intel and NVidia GPUs and display drivers.
Makes sense since there isn't a display driver for this video chipset yet that supports rotation. When there is, then you should be able to rotate within the Tablet OS natively.
ReplyDelete--Sears
He sent me a second note:
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid only VIA would be able to fix that kind of problem. iRotate
simply leverages the native rotation in the display driver, which is
provided by VIA/S3. If the driver does not support rotation, or rotation
support is broken in a specific driver release, that's that...
If the driver supports rotation, but it is deliberately disabled, it could
likely be re-enabled, but I can't possibly tell you how without the specific
device and driver.
I should say that the VN800 drivers was updated just a few days ago and can be downloaded here
could you install it and check it Sears?
Tried it on a pre-production unit (running Spanish), and rotation does not appear to have been added.
ReplyDelete--Sears
Well, that's really a bad news for those like me that ordered this device. Anyway... so you confirm that this driver at least works in the eo V7110 even when it does not include yet the screen rotation?
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