[Puged]

Hello MineRealmers, YahooAnswers has not been helpful with an issue I've been having as described here:

When I plug in an old DELL E173FP monitor into my Macbook Pro Retina and go to System Preferences>Displays and under the 'Display' tab of the DELL monitor window, which is scaled to 1280x1024 resolution, I change the rotation of the display from Standard to 270°. This does not change the display to 1024x1280, it changes the resolution to 800x600, with the option to increase it to 1024x768. Yet both of these resolutions are not portrait oriented.

Extra details: When I rotate this DELL monitor 270°, it causes black bars to appear at the top and bottom of the display and a mouse click doesn't occur where the mouse appears visually onscreen.

I can also note that this monitor -was- working in the past, it was successfully rotating to a portrait oriented resolution but now it's not being cooperative. Any help on this issue is appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Puged

[gallinka]

First question - did this ever work on this computer (not another one) or are you trying to install it on this computer for the first time?

[TechnoProdigy]

Why the hell is he rotating it at such an odd degree?
- disregard- I didn't math.

[Exekiel]

I presume you tried it at 90 degrees as well?

[Puged]

First question - did this ever work on this computer (not another one) or are you trying to install it on this computer for the first time?

Yes, it worked before with this computer. It happened randomly one day where it stopped scaling properly to the 270° rotation. And this is on a mac, so I didn't install any sort of display driver for this old DELL monitor.

I presume you tried it at 90 degrees as well?

Yes, both 90° and 270° don't scale properly.

[gallinka]

Ok (sorry to take so long to get back to you, I forgot. Good thing I have made it a habit to check the forums on a regular basis).

Well, nothing jumps out at me. I will do a little research into the problem and get back to you (at work until midnight, EST). I did a little work with display problems on a computer I wanted to run ubuntu on. Did not get it working but found it was a bug with the driver for the chipset the computer had (built in chipset, SBC). That resulted in a lot of research into x-desktop and the GUI interface for linux. MACs are not the same but use a variation of linux.

My guess is that an update was pushed to your install of X OS which resulted in the GUI config being broken/invalid. Like I said I will have to look in to it.

Hope to get back to you soon - gallinka