[gentoo-amd64] Xorg and Monitor Rotation

[gentoo-amd64] Xorg and Monitor Rotation

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hello,

is there a way to determine automatically via software whether a Samsung  
203B Monitor is currently oriented landscape or portrait in its mounting?

I am using xorg-x11-7.2 / xorg-server-1.2.0-r1 with the nvidia driver for  
my GeForce2 MX graphics card to which I've attached a Samsung 203B Monitor  
via an analog VGA cable.
(Therefore, it is rather xorg related than gentoo related, but I could not  
find a xorg xser mailing list. And this issue is certainly not developer  
related and hence does not fit to xorg@freedesktop.org.)

According to the Samsung support, there is Windows software (MagicRotation  
in Auto mode) that allows to detect whether or the monitor is currently  
rotated landscape or portrait within its mounting.

I cannot find software to detect the monitor's orientation on GNU/Linux.  
Can anybody point me to such software (or documents how to write such  
software)?
When rotating the monitor I cannot see any messages written to the xorg  
log file nor to the system log files. Is there some way to get hold of  
rotation events?

Kind regards,
Christian
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